A new volume of “Collected Poems” (Penguin, 2012) reveals unusual facets of the famous novelist, from childish nonsense to émigré insomnia. Novelist Vladimir Nabokov, celebrated for ...

"A moment later", he writes, "my first poem began." It does seem to be true that the summer of 1914 marked the inaugural moment of Nabokov's poetic career – a career occluded by the shining ...

Penguin Classics will publish all the cards ... Publication of a collection of Nabokov poems never before published in English is planned for November 2010, followed by a collection of previously ...

Penguin paid a six figure sum for the new work and continued ... The publisher also announced that in 2010 they would print a collection of Nabokov's poems which have not been seen before in the ...

The publication of Vladimir Nabokov's Selected Poems is a major literary event. The great, grand and much missed novelist (Lolita, Pale Fire) was "first a poet," as the book's editor Thomas ...

It took me many years to fully appreciate the novels of Vladimir Nabokov, and I was only able to do so by finally realizing that everything he wrote was really poetry, even if it was disguised as ...

Yet Nabokov was 56 when Lolita was published in Paris in 1955, by which time he had already published 11 novels (nine of them in Russian), dozens of short stories and five collections of poems.

A lost poem written by Vladimir Nabokov about Superman — in which the Man of Steel envisions a tragic wedding night with Lois Lane and longs to be a mortal man — has been published for the ...