Elegy for John Donne

Name: Elegy for John Donne
Author: Joseph Brodsky

by Joseph Brodsky

Long poem elegizing the 17th-century metaphysical poet John Donne

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Joseph Brodsky

Russian-American poet who won the Nobel Prize in 1987. His formal mastery and classical erudition set him apart from both Soviet and Western poetic fashions, and his essays are also important.

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