Research Catalog

Title

Selected poems / Vladimir Nabokov ; edited and with an introduction by Thomas Karshan ; new translations by Dmitri Nabokov.

Author

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977

Publication

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Karshan, Thomas
• Nabokov, Dmitri
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections. English. 2012

Alternative Title

Poems. 2012

Subject

• Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 > Translations into English
• Russian poetry

Genre/Form

American poetry – Russian-American authors – 20th century.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

9780307593351

LCCN

^^2011051275

OCLC

• 745979758
• SCSB-11597388

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library