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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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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overactive and misplaced signals from the brain's fear mechanisms. Problem gambling is an addictive behavior with a high comorbidity with alcohol problems. A...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (category 1798 poems)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798 edition) Problems playing this file? See media help. The poem tells of the mariner stopping a man who is on his...
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The Lucy poems are a series of five poems composed by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) between 1798 and 1801. All but one were...
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The Raven (redirect from The Raven (poem))
"The Raven" Problems playing this file? See media help. "The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January...
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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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The Second Coming Recitation Problems playing this file? See media help. The Second Coming Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot...
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Walt Whitman (redirect from Manly Health and Training)
lines. The succeeding untitled twelve poems totaled 2315 lines with 1336 lines belonging to the first untitled poem, later called "Song of Myself". The...
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Complaint") are poems written by Muhammad Iqbal, in the Urdu language, which were later published in his book Bang e Dara The poems are often noted for...
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Not Waving but Drowning (category British poems)
exists in many of the poems found in Selected Poems. Severin suggests that the figure might be Mary, a character in another poem by Smith titled "Cool...
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that poems like "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (which he initially signed only A.T.) "might prove not to be decorous for a poet laureate". The poem was...
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Down by the Salley Gardens (redirect from I was young and foolish)
States Air Force Band Problems playing this file? See media help. "Down by the Salley Gardens" (Irish: Gort na Saileán) is a poem by William Butler Yeats...
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peace Goes down before its edge like so much clover. In Robinson's poem, King Arthur and his knights are not romantic heroes, as other poets have made them...
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from part of Jonathan Swift's long satirical poem "On Poetry: A Rapsody" of 1733: The Vermin only teaze and pinch Their Foes superior by an Inch. So, Nat'ralists...
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Ballads, his collection of poems with William Wordsworth, but left it out on Wordsworth's advice. The exclusion of the poem, coupled with his inability...
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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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is a list of poems by Emily Dickinson. In addition to the list of first lines which link to the poems' texts, the table notes each poem's publication in...
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1969 in poetry (category 1969 poems)
Straus & Giroux) Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) Paul Blackburn, Two New Poems Louise Bogan, The Blue Estuaries Lucille Clifton...
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Owen does not blame any individual nation or person in any of his other poems, so there is no reason to believe that he does so in this one. Rather, he...
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Poetic Edda (redirect from Eddic poems)
poetry, the Eddic poems were minstrel poems, passed orally from singer to singer and from poet to poet for centuries. None of the poems are attributed to...
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (category 1806 poems)
poems by Taylor and her sister Ann. It is now sung to the tune of the French melody "Ah! vous dirai-je, maman", which was first published in 1761 and...
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influence of orientalism on Stevens's work. Tea Wallace Stevens's poem `Tea' Problems playing this file? See media help. Buttel, p. 129 Cook, p. 85 Cook...
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manuscript containing a poem of forty-four lines, in the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany in 1773. The problem remained unsolved for a number...
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The conversation poems are a group of at least eight poems composed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) between 1795 and 1807. Each details a particular...
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Kildare Poems or Kildare Lyrics (British Library Harley MS 913) are a group of sixteen poems written in an Irish dialect of Middle English and dated to...
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Poems (1895) is a collection of poems by Australian poet Jennings Carmichael. It was published in hardback by Longmans, Green, and Co in London, and Melville...
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