Collected Poems: Volume One

Sergey Yesenin was born in Konstantinovo in the Ryazan Province of the Russian Empire to a peasant family. He spent most of his childhood with his grandparents, who essentially reared him. He began to write poetry at the age of nine. In 1912, Esenin moved to Moscow, where he supported himself working as a proofreader in a printing company. The following year he enrolled in Moscow Shanyavsky University as an external student and studied there for a year and a half. His early poetry was inspired by Russian folklore. In 1915, he moved to Petrograd, where he became acquainted with fellow-poets Alexander Blok, Sergey Gorodetsky, Nikolai Klyuev and Andrei Bely and became well known in literary circles. Blok was especially helpful in promoting Yesenin's early career as a poet. Yesenin said that Bely gave him the meaning of form while Blok and Klyuev taught him lyricism. Check out our other books at www.dogstailbooks.co.uk

Author: Sergei Yesenin

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Sep 15, 2014

Number of Pages: 158 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1500326437

ISBN-13: 9781500326432