SEVERIANIN, Igor.

Pühajõgi. [In Cyrillic:] Estliandskiia poezy [Estonian poetry].

[Tartu,] “Odamees”, 1919. Small 8vo, pp. 68; early ink inscription to p. 5; edges a little browned,but a good copy in contemporary patterned cloth. First edition. Severyanin (born Igor Vasilevich Lotaryov, 1887–1941) took Estonian citizenship in 1918, and many of the 56 poems in the present collection (named after Estonia’s ‘holy’ river) were written there, between 1912 and 1918.Victor Terras writes of Severyanin: ‘His metric variations are among the richest of Russian poets. He was also always innovative in rhyme technique and was the first to use dissonant rhymes convincingly … His tumultuous successes before large, hysterical crowds were similar to those of Elvis Presley. In 1918, he was elected Russia’s “King of Poets,” Mayakovsky receiving second place and Balmont third … Though translated into almost all the European languages, Severyanin was almost forgotten for some fifty years, but his poetry has once again been recognized in recent years’.Kilgour 664; not found in Tarasenkov.

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