This collection of Brodsky's essays displays the full range of interests; poetic, literary, political and historical. Essays on writers deal with Akhmatova, Tsvetneva and Madlestam, as well as western poets like Auden, Montale, Cavafy and Derek Walcott. In "Catalogues in the Art", Brodsky addresses the history and future of Russian prose, and in "On Tyranny" and "Flight from Byzantium", he offers meditations on history and the modern age.
- ISBN10 0374520550
- ISBN13 9780374520557
- Publish Date 1 May 1987 (first published 1 May 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 January 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 512
- Language English