First edition of this collection of poems from the years 1936 to 1941.

‘With this collection Pasternak inaugurated a new phase in his poetry which many of his admirers have found disappointing, while others, notably Wladimir Weidlé, have greeted it as a liberation from false procedures. The latter view was obviously Pasternak’s own’ (Gifford, Pasternak, A critical study (1977), p. 163).

Tarasenkov, p. 295.

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