Vladimir Nabokov (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Vladimir Nabokov began, as many novelists do, as a poet. As a youth, he published privately what now would be called a chapbook and a full book of poetry before emigrating from Russia. Throughout his life, he continued to publish poetry in periodicals and several book-length collections, including Stikhotvorenia, 1929-1951 (1952), Poems (1959), and Poems and Problems (1970). Some critics even consider the long poem “Pale Fire” (an integral part of the novel Pale Fire) a worthy neo- Romantic poem in itself. Nabokov also...

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