num_pages: 256
description: Nabokov's masterly Collected Poems span the decades of his 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: an extraordinary autobiographical poem looking back at his time at Cambridge with its dinners girls and memories 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 written on America lepidoptery sport love and Nabokov's Russian homeland.
language: English
title: Collected Poems
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd