in Russian and translated by Nabokov, 14 poems written in English, and 18 chess problems. One of the 39 poems originally written in Russian, "Lilith,"...
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("Poems 1929–1951") Fifteen poems in Russian. (1959) Poems. The contents were later incorporated within Poems and Problems. (1969) Poems and Problems (a...
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Vladimir Nabokov (category 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights)
his exile composing chess problems, which he published in Germany's Russian émigré press, Poems and Problems (18 problems) and Speak, Memory (one). He describes...
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Seamen and Other Poems, becoming an immediate success. In 1995 it was voted 15th in the BBC's poll for "The Nation's Favourite Poems". The poem, set in...
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The Lamb recited Problems playing this file? See media help. "The Lamb" is a poem by William Blake, published in Songs of Innocence in 1789. "The Lamb"...
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Dmitri Nabokov (section Early life and education)
Russian and as an assistant to a chaplain. Nabokov translated many of his father's works, including novels, stories, plays, poems, lectures, and letters...
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Aldous Huxley (redirect from Arabia Infelix and Other Poems)
English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems, Born into the...
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poetry, and an example of Pushkin's respectful attitude towards women. "Я вас любил: любовь еще, быть может..." A poem by Alexander Pushkin Problems playing...
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List of amateur chess players (redirect from Lenin and chess)
mental breakdown. Nabokov published 18 chess problems in his anthology Poems and Problems, and composed three poems in sonnet form about chess in the Russian...
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Robert Frost (redirect from Fire And Ice (collection))
1924) "Fire and Ice" "Nothing Gold Can Stay" "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" 1924. Several Short Poems. New York: Holt 1928. Selected Poems. New York:...
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