In Reason's Grief, George Harris takes W. B. Yeats's comment that we begin to live only when we have conceived life as tragedy as a call for a tragic ethics, something the modern West has yet to produce. He argues that we must turn away from religious understandings of tragedy and the human conditio
On Grief and Reason
β Scribed by Brodsky, Joseph
- Publisher
- FSG
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 496
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Overview: JOSEPH BRODSKY [Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky] (1940-1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad, 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. Brodsky was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity." He was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1991.
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