Preface: Nabokov’s Poetry: Seeing the Unseen

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations: Primary Sources xi
5. Preface: Nabokov’s Poetry: Seeing the Unseen xv
6. 1. Introduction: Locating Nabokov’s Poetry 1
7. 2. Reading Nabokov’s Reception: Nabokov, Poetry, and the Critics 32
8. 3. Nabokov’s Lyric Voice: The Poetry of This World and Another 90
9. 4. Staged Lyricism: The Play of Poetry and Dream-Logic in Nabokov’s Drama 202
10. 5. Nabokov and the Short Story: The Lyric Heights of a Small Alpine Form 241
11. 6. Lyricism and the Novel: Nabokov’s Gift for Prose 277
12. 7. A Novel Snatched from the Sun: Nabokov’s Pale Fire 318
13. Conclusion: In Place of an Ending 375
14. Notes 389
15. References 421
16. Index 435