| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxix, 203 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Poems translated by Dmitri Nabokov. Music ; Revolution ; Peter in Holland ; The last supper ; Easter ; The ruler ; The glasses of St Joseph ; "Like pallid dawn, my poetry sounds gently" ; Shakespeare ; Cubes ; St Petersburg ; Evening ; Fortune-telling ; The demon ; The skater ; Spring ; Dream ; The train wreck ; Ut pictura poesis ; A trifle ; The university poem ; Butterflies ; Tolstoy ; "I have no need, for my nocturnal travels" ; To the grapefruit ; The hawkmoth ; "Forty-three years, forty-four years maybe" ; To Véra ; The Russian poems from "Poems and Problems". The rain has flown ; To liberty ; I still keep mute ; Hotel room ; Provence ; La bonne Lorraine ; The blazon ; The mother ; I like that mountain ; The dream ; The snapshot ; In paradise ; The execution ; For happiness the lover cannot sleep ; Lilith ; The muse ; Soft sound ; Snow ; The formula ; An unfinished draft ; Evening on a vacant lot ; The madman ; How I love you ; L'inconnue de la Seine ; At sunset ; We so firmly believed ; What happened overnight ; The poets ; To Russia ; Oculus ; Fame ; The Paris poem ; No matter how ; On rulers ; To prince S.M. Kachurin ; A day like any other ; Irregular iambics ; What is the evil deed ; From the gray North -- The English poems from "Poems and Problems". A literary dinner ; The refrigerator awakes ; A discovery ; The poem ; An evening of Russian poetry ; The room ; Voluptates tactionum ; Restoration ; The poplar ; Lines written in Oregon ; Ode to a model ; On translating "Eugene Onegin" ; Rain ; The ballad of Longwood Glen -- English poems not included in "Poems and Problems". Home ; Remembrance ; The Russian song ; Softest of tongues ; Exile ; A poem ; Dream ; Dandelions ; Lunar lines. |
| Language |
Contains poems written in English and English translations of poems originally written in Russian. |
| Summary |
A landmark collection of poetic works by the acclaimed author features pieces spanning his entire literary career, from 1914's "Music" to 1974's "To Vera" as well as more recently translated works, including "The University Poem" and "To Russia." |
| Subject |
Russian poetry.
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Russian poetry. (OCoLC)fst01102394
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Lyrik.
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Amerikanisches Englisch.
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| Added Author |
Karshan, Thomas, editor.
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Nabokov, Dmitri, translator.
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Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
Poems. Selections.
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Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
Poems. Selections. English.
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| ISBN |
9780307593351 |
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0307593355 |
| Standard No. |
40021084685 |
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