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This work contains a collection of essays by Brodsky, which have been written since he was awarded the Nobel Prize For Literature in 1987. It includes "An Immodest Proposal" written while he was Poet Laureate, in which he exhorts other poets to address a broad public and in meditations on the nature of exile and the future of Europe he considers the international scene with unmatched insight.
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.