1 - Justification for the Term "Baroque" -- - 2 - Kierkegaard and Sestov: Affinities and Influence in Brodsky's Pre-Exile Verse, 1957-1972 -- - 3 - The Influence of John Donne, Relative to Existentialism, 1957-1972 -- - 4 - The Baroque Leap of Faith, 1972-1979 -- - 5 - The Post-Baroque, 1980-1989 -- - 6 - Nomadism and Venice, 1990-1996 -- - 7 - The Consequences of Nomadism: Late Bilingualism and Posthumous Biographies
"David MacFadyen's comprehensive examination of Joseph Brodsky's poetry and prose redefines his relevance not only in regard to the recent past, with an overview of some problems of post-Soviet aesthetics, but also with regard to the future, since the assessment of the poet's Weltanschauung as essentially Baroque leads to a redefinition of his final role as a cross-cultural, bilingual essayist."--Jacket