Tikhiya pesni [Quiet Songs]. St. Petersburg: Parnastsy i Proklyatye, 1904. 8vo. 134 pp. Lettered white wrappers. Wrappers soiled; some internal waterstains and pencil marks. THE POET'S FIRST BOOK. Following the advice of his brother, I. F. Annenskii did not publish his poems until after he turned 35. He published his first book under the pseudonym "Nik. T--o" or "No One" in Russian. A lover of French poetry, he became a major force in the first wave of Russian Symbolism. Anna Akhmatova called him "my only teacher." Tikhiya pesni includes translations of poems by Baudelaire, Heine, Mallarmé, Proudhon, Rimbaud, Verlaine and others. He published only one more book of poetry before suffering a heart attack while waiting for a train in St. Petersburg.
Tikhiya pesni [Quiet Songs]. St. Petersburg: Parnastsy i Proklyatye, 1904. 8vo. 134 pp. Lettered white wrappers. Wrappers soiled; some internal waterstains and pencil marks. THE POET'S FIRST BOOK. Following the advice of his brother, I. F. Annenskii did not publish his poems until after he turned 35. He published his first book under the pseudonym "Nik. T--o" or "No One" in Russian. A lover of French poetry, he became a major force in the first wave of Russian Symbolism. Anna Akhmatova called him "my only teacher." Tikhiya pesni includes translations of poems by Baudelaire, Heine, Mallarmé, Proudhon, Rimbaud, Verlaine and others. He published only one more book of poetry before suffering a heart attack while waiting for a train in St. Petersburg.
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