Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries (Vol 1)

A"A poet like Joseph Brodsky is lucky to find a critic who shares his staggering breadth and depth of reading and his capacity for relating to one another traditions that at first appear to be utterly incompatible: the past and present of Russian poetry, the west and the east of European culture, Hellenic, Christian and existential modes of thought.A" Professor Donald Rayfield in his review of Valentina Polukhina's book A"Joseph Brodsky: a poet for our timeA", Times High Educational Supplement, 16 February,1990.A"Polukhina has been investigating her subject for at least ten years, the thoroughness of her research and the breadth of her knowledge (encompassing not only Brodsky but all modern Russian poetry) are formidable and everywhere evident.A"Professor David Bethea, an author of A"Joseph Brodsky and the creation of exileA". Slavic and East European Journal, 1991Valentina Polukhina has been studing Joseph Brodsky's poetry and prose for the last 20 years, and her knowledge knows no bounds. Brodsky is very fortunate to have so dedicated a scholar, thoughtful, profound, highly sensitive, tactful, indefatigable.Peter Vail