Selected Poems of Vladimir Nabokov
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These poems span the whole of Nabokovโs career, from the newly discovered โMusic,โ written in 1914, to the short, playful โTo Vรฉra,โ composed in 1974. Many are newly translated by Dmitri Nabokov, including The University Poem, a sparkling novel in verse modeled on Pushkinโs Eugene Onegin that constitutes a significant new addition to Nabokovโs oeuvre. Included too are such poems as โLilithโ, an early work which broaches the taboo theme revisited nearly forty years later in Lolita, and โAn Evening of Russian Poetryโ, a masterpiece in which Nabokov movingly mourns his lost language in the guise of a versified lecture on Russian delivered to college girls.
The 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; and 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.
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VLADIMIR 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 worksโBend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962)โand translated his earlier Russian novels into English. He taught at Wellesley, Harvard, and Cornell. He died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977.
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Thomas Karshan is the author of Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Play and co- translator of Nabokovโs The Tragedy of Mister Morn. 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. He lives in London and Norwich.
