Lectures on poetry, 1980.

Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996

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Iosif Alexandrovich Brodsky (Joseph Brodsky) (1940-1996), a Russian poet, was born May 24, 1940 in Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia) to Jewish parents. He left school at the age of fifteen to study independently, teaching himself English and Polish. In 1964 he was arrested by Soviet authorities on charges of "social parasitism" and sentenced to five years of hard labor on a state farm near the Arctic Circle. He was released after serving less than two years of his sentence, but in 1972 he...

Tsvetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941.

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Marina Tsvetaeva [Марина Ивановна Цветаева] (1892-1941) was a major Russian poet. In 1922 she left Russia with her daughter Ariadna Efron [Ариадна Сергеевна Эфрон] and son Georgii (Moor) Efron [Георгий Сергеевич (Мур) Эфрон] to join her husband, a White Army officer Sergei Efron [Сергей Яковлевич Эфрон] in Berlin. In 1937 Tsvetaeva's daughter and husband who had developed Soviet sympathies returned to the Soviet Union. In 1939 Tsvetaeva and her son followed them. In 1941 her husband...

Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973

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Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973), poet, was born in York, England, on February 21, 1907. He attended Christ Church, Oxford, from 1925-1928, then served as a schoolmaster in various institutions in England and Scotland from 1930 to 1935, including The Downs School in Colwell. In 1935 Auden married Erika Mann, a writer and the daughter of Thomas Mann, so that she could gain British Citizenship and escape Nazi Germany. Although the two never lived together, they remained married until Mann's death in ...

Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960

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Pasternak was a Russian poet, who declined the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 for his novel Doctor Zhivago. Reavey was an English surrealist poet. From the description of Letters to George Reavey, 1931-1960. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77990740 From the guide to the Boris Leonidovich Pasternak Letters to George Reavey, 1931-1960., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 1890-1960 ...

Herbert, Zbigniew

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Epithet: Canon of Lichfield British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000447.0x000071 Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998), poet and writer. From the description of Zbigniew Herbert papers, 1968-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702173071 Epithet: Chaplain of St. Martin's, London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000447.0x000073 ...

Popa, Vasko

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