Like Joyce, Nabokov was first and foremost a poet. His obsession with writing poetry began in the summer when he was fifteen, and over the next ten years he wrote thousands of poems. When his first novel, Mary, was published in 1926, Nabokov became one of the great modernists who revolutionized the novel and imbued it with poetry. At the same time, he was still writing poetry, and although the volume was not as good as in his early days, his interest and personality more than made up for it. These poems share the same ideas and themes as his novels and complement each other. "The Collected Poems of Nabokov" contains nearly one hundred poems by Vladimir Nabokov, spanning his fifty-nine years of poetry creation, including Nabokov's earliest surviving work "Music", the long poem "The University Poems" with a capacity comparable to a short story, and a new translation translated by his son Dmitry for the first time.
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This collection of poems reminds me of a friend of mine who loves poetry. Nabokov's poems, like his novels, are full of unique charm. His words are like magic, immersing me in wonderful worlds. Especially the "College Psalm", I was shocked by its length and depth. I think everyone can find their own resonance and insights from Nabokov's poems.
This collection of poems reminds me of a friend of mine who loves poetry. Nabokov's poems, like his novels, are full of unique charm. His words are like magic, immersing me in wonderful worlds. Especially the "College Psalm", I was shocked by its length and depth. I think everyone can find their own resonance and insights from Nabokov's poems.