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: 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.
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Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century, as well as a translator and lepidopterist. His works include, from the Russian novels, The Luzhin Defense and The Gift; from the English novels, Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire and Ada; the autobiographical Speak, Memory; translations of Alice in Wonderland into Russian and Eugene Onegin into English; and lectures on literature. All of the fiction and Speak, Memory are published in Penguin.
The poems are coy, clever, sophisticated, sonorous and worldly. In other words, Nabokovian * New York Daily News *
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