The Poems of Doctor Zhivago (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Boris Pasternak
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Poetic sequence
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric sequence
- Subjects: Family or family life, Love or romance, Christianity, Fate or fatalism, Weddings, Reincarnation, Russia or Russian people, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays, Knights or knighthood, Resurrection, Seasons
The Poems
The Poems of Doctor Zhivago is a collection of twenty-five poems that Boris Pasternak appended to his novel Doctor Zhivago (1958). Some were published individually in various publications; others appeared for the first time when the novel was published in Italian in 1957, in many other languages (including English) in 1958, and in the first Russian edition in Paris in 1959. The significance of the title lies in Pasternak’s insistence on the authorship of Yuri Zhivago, the protagonist of the novel. The poems are not simply appended to the novel without...
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