Poems

Reverent hymns in honor of the incomparable Lady, piercing poems about Russia, poems from the famous cycles «Poems about the Beautiful Lady», «Snow Mask», «On the Kulikovo Field», «Terrible World», «Carmen», «Italian Poems» and many others are included in this... book. «Trilogy of Humanization», compiled by Blok, like every cycle of Blok, is a significant event in Russian poetry, and each poem is an integral part of this event.
The theme of past elevated love, of past happiness, of forever lost Light runs through all the poet's work. The Symbolists awaited the second coming of Christ, but the revolution began…
«Blok is a union, a unifying, all-powerful music…» — writes Dmitry Bykov in the article «Unbreakable Blok», which opens this book.