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Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin is a Russian poet, a representative of peasant poetry and lyrics, later of the literary trend - Imagism. From the first poetry collections ("Radunitsa", 1916; "Rural Book of Hours", 1918) he appeared as a subtle lyricist, master of landscape, singer of peasant Russia, connoisseur of the folk language and folk soul. In 1919-1923 he was a member of a group of Imagists. Tragic attitude, spiritual confusion are expressed in the cycles "Mare's Ships" (1920), "Moscow Tavern" (1924), the poem "The Black Man" (1925). In the poem "The Ballad of Twenty-Six" (1924), dedicated to the Baku commissars, the collection "Soviet Russia" (1925), the lyric-epic poem "Anna Snegina" (1925), Yesenin sought to comprehend the "commune rearing Russia", although he continued to feel like a poet "Russia leaving", "golden log hut". Yesenin's poems and poems, collected in the book, give a complete picture of the versatility of the poet's talent. His lyrical hero, a bright and sad man, thinks about the frailty of the earth, about the illusory nature of love, about betrayal and deceit. “You are my fallen maple ...”, “The golden grove dissuaded ...”, “I don’t regret, I don’t call, I don’t cry ...” - the lines of these and other poems by Sergei Yesenin have become truly popular and still disturb the hearts of readers. The works included in the collection are included in the list of required reading in school. About all this and not only in the book Sergei Yesenin. Poems and poems (Sergey Yesenin)