Selected poems
By: by Vladimir Nabokov ; edited by Thomas Karshan ; new translations by Dmitri Nabokov
Contributors: Karshan, Thomas, editor; Nabokov, Dmitri, translator
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780307593351
Copyright date: 2012
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: English poems not included in "Poems and Problems". Home ; Remembrance ; The Russian song ; Softest of tongues ; Exile ; A poem ; Dream ; Dandelions ; Lunar lines.