Joseph Brodsky (May 24, 1940 - January 28, 1996), born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Russian poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1987) and was chosen Poet Laureate of the United States (1991-1992). He had an honorary degree of the University of Silesia. Wikipedia
Brodsky was born on 24 th May 1940 in Leningrad, in the former Soviet Union (now St Petersburg, Russia) into a Russian-Jewish family. www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5853
Joseph Brodsky is a perfect example of a mediocrity that got acclaim elsewhere who cruised to American renown. His poems in English are utter doggerel, while his ‘translations’ of his own Russian poems, while slightly better, show no original thoughts no www.cosmoetica.com/TOP55-DES52.htm
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