This edition contains the essential collection of lyrical works by the great Russian poet and Nobel Prize laureate Boris Leonidovich Pasternak: nine books of poetry, including poems from the novel 'Doctor Zhivago,' as well as the autobiographical essay 'People and Situations.' No matter how difficult the poet's path—from the 'lofty inarticulateness' of his early, 'frantic' verses to the 'stunning simplicity' of his later lyricism—for generations of readers, he was and remains beloved and significant, like a pure sound in the deafening din of his era. According to Tsvetaeva, Pasternak will never have a 'square.' But there will be 'a multitude of lonely ones, a lonely multitude of thirsty ones, whom he, a solitary spring, waters.'