TY - BOOK AU - Brodsky,Joseph TI - Less than one: selected essays SN - 0374520550 AV - PN1271 .B76 1986 U1 - 809.1/04 19 PY - 1986/// CY - New York PB - Farrar, Straus & Giroux KW - Poetry, Modern KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Russian literature N1 - Less than one --; The keening muse --; Pendulum's song --; A guide to a renamed city --; In the shadow of Dante --; On Tyranny --; The child of civilization --; Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899-1980): an obituary --; The power of the elements --; The sound of the tide --; A poet and prose --; Footnote to a poem --; Catastrophes in the air --; On "September 1, 1939" by W.H. Auden --; To please a shadow --; A commencement address --; Flight from Byzantium --; In a room and a half N2 - Includes essays on Russian writers, Western poets, politics, and the author's native city, Leningrad UR - http://www.archive.org/details/lessthanoneselec00brod UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL2535126M ER -