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Included too are such poems as “Lilith”, an early work which broaches the taboo theme revisited nearly forty years later in \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e, and “An Evening of Russian Poetry”, a masterpiece in which Nabokov movingly mourns his lost language in the guise of a versified lecture on Russian delivered to college girls. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe subjects range from the Russian Revolution to the American refrigerator, taking in on the way motel rooms, butterflies, ice-skating, love, desire, exile, loneliness, language, and poetry itself\u003cb\u003e; \u003c\/b\u003eand the poet whirls swiftly between the brilliantly painted facets of his genius, wearing masks that are, by turns, tender, demonic, sincere, self-parodying, shamanic, visionary, and ingeniously domestic.\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems Translated by Dmitri Nabokov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eMUSIC \u003cbr\u003eREVOLUTION \u003cbr\u003ePETER IN HOLLAND \u003cbr\u003eTHE LAST SUPPER \u003cbr\u003eEASTER\u003cbr\u003eTHE RULER\u003cbr\u003eTHE GLASSES OF ST. JOSEPH\u003cbr\u003e“LIKE PALLID DAWN, MY POETRY SOUNDS GENTLY” \u003cbr\u003eSHAKESPEARE \u003cbr\u003eCUBES\u003cbr\u003eST. PETERSBURG\u003cbr\u003eEVENING \u003cbr\u003eFORTUNE-TELLING\u003cbr\u003eTHE DEMON \u003cbr\u003eTHE SKATER \u003cbr\u003eSPRING \u003cbr\u003eDREAM \u003cbr\u003eTHE TRAIN WRECK \u003cbr\u003eUT PICTURA POESIS \u003cbr\u003eA TRIFLE \u003cbr\u003eTHE UNIVERSITY POEM \u003cbr\u003eBUTTERFLIES \u003cbr\u003eTOLSTOY \u003cbr\u003e“I HAVE NO NEED, FOR MY NOCTURNAL TRAVELS” \u003cbr\u003eTO THE GRAPEFRUIT \u003cbr\u003eTHE HAWKMOTH \u003cbr\u003e“FORTY-THREE YEARS, FORTY-FOUR YEARS MAYBE” \u003cbr\u003eTO VÉRA \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Russian Poems from \u003ci\u003ePoems and Problems\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE RAIN HAS FLOWN\u003cbr\u003eTO LIBERTY \u003cbr\u003eI STILL KEEP MUTE \u003cbr\u003eHOTEL ROOM \u003cbr\u003ePROVENCE \u003cbr\u003eLA BONNE LORRAINE \u003cbr\u003eTHE BLAZON \u003cbr\u003eTHE MOTHER \u003cbr\u003eI LIKE THAT MOUNTAIN \u003cbr\u003eTHE DREAM \u003cbr\u003eTHE SNAPSHOT \u003cbr\u003eIN PARADISE \u003cbr\u003eTHE EXECUTION \u003cbr\u003eFOR HAPPINESS THE LOVER CANNOT SLEEP \u003cbr\u003eLILITH \u003cbr\u003eTHE MUSE \u003cbr\u003eSOFT SOUND \u003cbr\u003eSNOW \u003cbr\u003eTHE FORMULA \u003cbr\u003eAN UNFINISHED DRAFT \u003cbr\u003eEVENING ON A VACANT LOT \u003cbr\u003eTHE MADMAN \u003cbr\u003eHOW I LOVE YOU \u003cbr\u003eL’INCONNUE DE LA SEINE \u003cbr\u003eAT SUNSET \u003cbr\u003eWE SO FIRMLY BELIEVED \u003cbr\u003eWHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT \u003cbr\u003eTHE POETS \u003cbr\u003eTO RUSSIA \u003cbr\u003eOCULUS \u003cbr\u003eFAME\u003cbr\u003eTHE PARIS POEM \u003cbr\u003eNO MATTER HOW \u003cbr\u003eON RULERS \u003cbr\u003eTO PRINCE S. 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KACHURIN \u003cbr\u003eA DAY LIKE ANY OTHER \u003cbr\u003eIRREGULAR IAMBICS \u003cbr\u003eWHAT IS THE EVIL DEED \u003cbr\u003eFROM THE GRAY NORTH \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe English Poems from \u003ci\u003ePoems and Problems\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA LITERARY DINNER \u003cbr\u003eTHE REFRIGERATOR AWAKES \u003cbr\u003eA DISCOVERY \u003cbr\u003eTHE POEM \u003cbr\u003eAN EVENING OF RUSSIAN POETRY \u003cbr\u003eTHE ROOM \u003cbr\u003eVOLUPTATES TACTIONUM \u003cbr\u003eRESTORATION \u003cbr\u003eTHE POPLAR \u003cbr\u003eLINES WRITTEN IN OREGON \u003cbr\u003eODE TO A MODEL \u003cbr\u003eON TRANSLATING “EUGENE ONEGIN” \u003cbr\u003eRAIN \u003cbr\u003eTHE BALLAD OF LONGWOOD GLEN \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnglish Poems Not Included in\u003ci\u003e Poems and Problems\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHOME \u003cbr\u003eREMEMBRANCE \u003cbr\u003eTHE RUSSIAN SONG \u003cbr\u003eSOFTEST OF TONGUES \u003cbr\u003eEXILE \u003cbr\u003eA POEM \u003cbr\u003eDREAM \u003cbr\u003eDANDELIONS \u003cbr\u003eLUNAR LINES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVLADIMIR NABOKOV studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin. In 1940, he left France for the United States, where he wrote some of his greatest works—\u003ci\u003eBend Sinister \u003c\/i\u003e(1947), \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e (1955), \u003ci\u003ePnin\u003c\/i\u003e (1957), and \u003ci\u003ePale Fire\u003c\/i\u003e (1962)—and translated his earlier Russian novels into English. He taught at Wellesley, Harvard, and Cornell. He died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThomas Karshan is the author of \u003ci\u003eVladimir Nabokov and the\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eArt of Play \u003c\/i\u003eand co- translator of Nabokov’s \u003ci\u003eThe Tragedy of Mister Morn\u003c\/i\u003e. Previously a research fellow at Christ Church, Oxford, and Queen Mary, University of London, he is now a lecturer in literature at the University of East Anglia. 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