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The Fragrance of the Sun: Selected Poems of Balmont

(russian) Konstantin Balmont

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This book is a selection of poems by the Russian Silver Age poet Balmont. In his poetry creation, Balmont relentlessly pursued the sense of music and made innovations in verse structure, rhyme and rhythm, and language refinement, thus contributing to the advancement of Russian poetry. Many of Balmont's poems express the hesitation and anguish of intellectuals during the social turmoil at the turn of the two centuries. They had ideals, ambitions, and conscience, but were unable to change social reality and could only lament loneliness. The translator compiled this anthology based on Balmont's poetry themes and divided it into eight volumes. This book is the fourth in the "Poetic Russia" series.