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Joseph brodsky was born in 1940, in leningrad, and began writing poetry when he was eighteen. All poems are shown free of charge for educational purposes only in accordance with fair use. Jul 10, 2015 this feature is not available right now. The surest defense against evil, said russianamerican poet joseph brodsky, is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even if you will eccentricity. Joseph brodsky was born in leningrad on may 24, 1940. He wanted joseph brodsky, nobel literature prize 1987, solzhenitsyn spit on and on holy trinity mandelstam pasternak tsvetaeva. Monica partridge, a former student in his class, told open culture, i took a poetry class with joseph brodsky at mount holyoke college my freshman year it was all 19th century russian poetry, and he would give us four pages of poems to memorize overnight. Most of his lyric and elegiac poems were not overtly political, but his work dealt with matters of life, love, death, and the meaning of it all, with an.