Lev Loseff

Lev Loseff (15 June 1937, Leningrad, USSR - 6 May 2009, Hanover, NH USA) was professor of Russian and chair of the Russian language and literature department at Dartmouth. He published nine collections of verse and fiction in Russian, as well as numerous works of criticism. A compilation of his poetry, translated by Gerald Smith, was published in 2012 by Arc Publications, UK. His English works include On the Beneficence of Censorship: Aesopian Language in Modern Russian Literature, Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life and two coedited volumes, Joseph Brodsky: The Art of a Poem and Brodsky's Poetics and Aesthetics.