Lev Loseff (; birth name Lev Lifshitz; June 15, 1937 – May 6, 2009) was a Russian poet, literary critic, essayist and educator.

Early life and education

The son of poet Vladimir Lifshitz, Loseff was born in

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. He attended Leningrad's famous Saint Peter's School and graduated from the journalism department of the

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Literary career

Loseff immigrated to the U.S. in 1976. He earned a

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in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the

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and became a professor of Russian literature at

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, a position he held until his death thirty years later. In his later years Loseff was a Russian-language radio personality and a prolific author, writing both poetry and non-fiction works on Russian literature. Loseff died on May 6, 2009, in Hanover, NH.

Works

*Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life *Joseph Brodsky: The Art of a Poem (co-edited with Valentina Polukhina) *Iosif Brodskii: Trudy i dni (co-edited with Petr Vail) *On the Beneficence of Censorship: Aesopian Language in Modern Russian Literature *Poetika Brodskogo *Brodsky's Poetics and Aesthetics (co-edited with Valentina Polukhina) *A Sense of Place: Tsarskoe Selo and Its Poets (co-edited with Barry Scherr) *Eight collections of poetry and prose in Russian.

References

External links

* http://www.vavilon.ru/texts/prim/losev0.html * http://www.rvb.ru/np/publication/02comm/10/07losev.htm
Photographs of Loseff

Book review
of Loseff's biography of

Joseph Brodsky Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) in the Soviet Union, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled ("strongly ...

.
Interview with Loseff
in

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magazine. * http://levloseff.blogspot.com/ * "''Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life'' by Lev Loseff" in ''Quarterly Conversation'

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