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| Introduction | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Transliteration and Other Conventions | |
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| Invocation, from Heroides, Dedicated to the Muses (poem, 1777) | |
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| 'Though poverty's no stain' (poem, 1813) | |
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| Conversation between Me and the Women (poem, 1818) | |
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| To Diana (poem, before 1824) | |
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| The Dream: A Letter (story, 1829) | |
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| The Unfinished Sewing (poem, 1839) | |
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| The Crone (ballad, 1840) | |
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| 'Life calls us' (elegy, 1846) | |
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| At the Tea-Table (story, 1859) | |
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| Pros and Cons (story, 1863) | |
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| Autobiographical Response from a Provincial Wasteland (poem, c.1865) | |
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| The Settlement (story, 1892) | |
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| After the Great Hunger (extract from 'Round the Villages: A Doctor's Memoir of an Epidemic', 1896) | |
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| The Seamstress (poem, 1901) | |
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| The Wedding Ring (poem, 1905) | |
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| Incantation (poem, 1905) | |
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| Lizards (prose poem, 1902) | |
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| Elsa (prose poem, 1902) | |
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| The Woman Question (one-act play, 1908) | |
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| Walled up (story, 1910) | |
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| Spring (poem, 1907/1910) | |
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| 'Silent, draped in the garments' (poem, 1910) | |
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| My Loves (essay, 1913) | |
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| 'Sister, I have come to take your place' (poem, 1912) | |
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| Solitude (poem, 1914) | |
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| 'Fear turns objects over' (poem, 1921) | |
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| Memories of Aleksandr Blok (essay, 1965) | |
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| Long-Barrow Princess, ii (poem, 1912) | |
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| Ruth (poem, 1916) | |
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| The Grandmother of Russian Poetry (poem, 1918) | |
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| No Dream (narrative poem, 1919) | |
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| The Substitute Lecturer (one-act play, 1919/1930) | |
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| 'I shall not lie' (poem, 1923/4) | |
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| 'A childhood memory' (poem, 1927) | |
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| Through a Window-Light (poem, 1928) | |
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| Staircase (narrative poem, 1926) | |
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| Womenfolk (story, 1927) | |
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| Lomonosov (poem, 1928) | |
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| The Bronte Sisters (poem, 1939/1946) | |
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| On Guard and on Town Gardens (story, c.1935) | |
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| A Soviet Madonna and Child (extract from The Flying Start - novel, 1947) | |
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| From my Diary, iii (1937) | |
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| The Omnibus (poem, 1938/1954) | |
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| A Few Autobiographical Facts (poem, 1954) | |
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| Tatar Anguish (poem, 1954) | |
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| Male Bonding Sessions (extract from Zhenya: The Wonder of the Twentieth Century - novel, 1962) | |
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| Lines Written during a Sleepless Night in Tbilisi (poem, 1969) | |
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| How the Cadres were Broken in (memoir, 1970s) | |
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| Sale of a Historian's Library (poem, 1970s) | |
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| Cassandra (poem, 1986-8) | |
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| Words (story, 1988) | |
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| Medea (story, 1989) | |
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| Frozen (one-act play, 1989) | |
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| Journey to Kashgar (story, 1973/1989) | |
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| Fifth Stanzas (poem, 1992) | |
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| Appendix: Russian text of the poems | |
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| Notes | |
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| About the Translators | |
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| Index of Titles and First Lines | |
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