Poems and Problems

Poems and Problems () is a book by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1969. It consists of: 
One of the 39 poems originally written in Russian, "Lilith", in 1928, can be looked at as a foreshadowing of his 1955 novel "Lolita". However, in the author's notes, Nabokov states that, "Intelligent readers will abstain from examining this impersonal fantasy for any links with my later fiction," and that the poem was written "...to amuse a friend."