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Collected Poems
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Collected Poems
Features a collection of Nabokov's poems span the decades of his career, from 'Music', written in 1914, to the short, playful 'To Vera', composed in 1974. this title also includes verse written on America, lepidoptery, sport, and love.
Vladimir Nabokov is acknowledged as one of the greatest prose stylists of the twentieth century, but his first love was poetry. This collection brings together the best of Nabokov's masterly verse.
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A landmark collection of verse from one of the twentieth century's supreme writers.
These masterly poems span the decades of Nabokov's career, from Music, written in 1914, to the short, playful To Vera, composed in 1974. The University Poem, one of Nabokov's major poetic works, is here in English for the first time. This extraordinary autobiographical poem looks back at his time at Cambridge, with its dinners, girls, and memories, and it is suffused with rich description, wit, and verbal dexterity.
Included too are the surreally comic A Literary Dinner, the enchanting Eve, the wryly humorous An Evening of Russian Poetry, and a meditation on the act of creation, Tolstoy. As well as verse on diverse themes such as America, lepidoptery, sport, love, and Nabokov's Russian homeland.
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Collected Poems by Vladimir Nabokov is praised for its cleverness and sophistication. The poems are described as being characteristically Nabokovian, embodying a sonorous and worldly nature.
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ISBN: 9780141192260
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 August 2013
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Contributors:
- Translated by Dmitri Nabokov
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 193g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even 'God's own novelist' (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.
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