Homage to Robert Frost

joseph brodsky seamus heaney derek walcott

Three of our generation's greatest poets explore the misconceptions and mythologies that surround Robert Frost.

Genres poetryliterary criticismcriticismessaysnonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published September 1,1996

This edition

Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Published: September 30, 1997 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374525248
ASIN: 0374525242
Language: English

About the author

joseph brodsky

Joseph Brodsky (Russian: Иосиф Бродский] was a Russian-American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad in 1940, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters. He taught thereafter at several universities, including Yale, Columbia, and Mount Holyoke. Brodsky was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity." A journalist asked him: "You are an American citizen who is receiving the Prize for Russian-language poetry. Who are you, an American or a Russian?" Brodsky replied: "I'm Jewish; a Russian poet, an English essayist – and, of course, an American citizen." He was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1991.