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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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