Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a long narrative poem by Lord Byron that follows a young, disillusioned man traveling through Europe

This volume contains the core collection of lyrical works by the major Russian poet and Nobel Prize laureate Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890–1960): nine poetry collections—including the poems from the novel *Doctor Zhivago*—as well as the autobiographical essay *People and Situations*. As Dmitry Likhachev observed, the spiritualizing power of Pasternak’s verse compels the reader to both think...

Marina Tsvetaeva belonged to no poetic school and acknowledged no literary influences—only human ones. She stood alone, ‘for all’ and ‘against all.’ A staggering temperament combined with extraordinary rhythmic variety defines Tsvetaeva’s lyric poetry. Disregarding the boundaries of convention, she infused her poetry with an elemental force. And, despite misunderstanding, loneliness, and a...