Clarence Brown

Clarence Brown is the author of a prize-winning biography of Mandelstam and is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Princeton.

From the Review

June 27, 1974: Soviet Inhumanity (letter)

January 25, 1973: Six Poems of Osip Mandelstamm* (poem)

June 29, 1972: A Commencement Oration*

January 27, 1972: 3 Poems by Osip Mandelstam* (poem)

October 22, 1970: The Nature of the Miracle*

From New York Review Books

Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam
Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century.