Less Than One

''Genius ... bringing ardent intelligence to bear upon poetry, politics and autobiography'' Seamus Heaney

Essayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the most penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This prize-winning collection of his diverse essays includes uniquely powerful appreciations of great writers: on Dostoevsky and the development of Russian prose, on Auden and Akhmatova, Cavafy, Mo...