num_pages: 160
description: Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921) lived through his country's savage wars and radical traumas trying to welcome the new order. Trotsky wrote, `Certainly Blok is not one of us, but he came towards us. And that is what broke him.' Pasternak said, `He is as free as the wind.'
language: English
title: Selected Poems
titlecomplete: Selected Poems
genres: Classics, Fiction, Nobel Prize, Russia, Russian Literature, Classic Literature, 20th Century, Literature, Poetry
ratings_count: 821
publisher: Penguin Classics