Abstract
Joseph Brodsky was an unique author of Russian literature of his time. He was a poet laureate with the Nobel Prize in 1987, owing this to his "clarity of thought and poetic character", which he has got from the legacy of the Russian and world literary tradition, his major references. Among these, the acmeists Anna Akhmatova and Ossip Mandelstam, and the American poet T. S. Elliot stand ou…