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BALMONT, Konstantin Dmitrievich (1867-1942). Zveny

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Moscow: "Skorpion," 1913. 283 pp. 8vo (190 x 125 mm). Original decorated pale green wrappers. Condition: wrappers soiled, backstrip chipped and cracked; fragile. [With:] Zarevo zor [Glow of Twilights]. Moscow: Grif, 1914. Second edition. 169 pp. Small 8vo (175 x 110 mm). Designed by V. M. Sablin. Original two-color decorated tan wrappers. Condition: wrappers lightly spotted, backstrip with some minor chipping and discoloration; small tape repair to verso of back wrapper. [And:] Belyi zodyii [White Architect]. St. Petersburg: "Sirin," 1914. 332 pp. Folio (250 x 190 mm). Original light blue wrappers. Condition: wrappers soiled and creased; splits at head and tail of backstrip, small rubber stamps to verso of wrappers. three collections of poetry by the imporant russian symbolist. Balmont was one of the most important Russian poets during the Silver Age. He also translated Shelley, Ibsen, Whitman, and Armenian poetry. His free translation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells" served as the basis for Rachmaninoff's choral symphony, Op. 35. Prokofiev and Stravinsky too set his poetry to music. As an anti-tsarist, he at first supported the Russian Revolution but not the Bolsheviks and emigrated to Germany and settled in France where he died in poverty. (3)

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