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 | | 8vo, with an allegorical engraved frontispiece of the Lorelei by Veyrassat, and a lithographed ms. |
 | | Balmont's long lines, especially in his slowly streaming anapestic, trochaic, and amphibrachian verses, are structurally anti-Pushkinian; with their experimental, vibrant rhythms he made an intoxicating psychic impact on the reader, and his sensual themes shocked and delighted Russian late-Victorian, early 20th-century readers' (Terras). |
 | | ms facsimile, some browning to edges; a very good, large copy, edges totally uncut, in later half cloth, the original printed wrappers bound in. |
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