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V nashe vremi͡a Bunin izvesten v osnovnom kak genialʹnyĭ prozaik, odnako sam on schital sebi͡a prezhde vsego poėtom, i stikhi ego polʹzovalisʹ shirokoĭ populi͡arnostʹi͡u kak v Rossii, tak i v ėmigrat͡sii, sredi chitateleĭ Russkogo zarubezhʹi͡a.Ivan Bunin v stikhakh byl v tochnosti takim zhe, kak v proze, - idealʹnym stilistom s nepovtorimym chuvstvom slova. Poėtika ego blagorodno prosta, obrazy ottocheny i i͡uvelirno tochny, metafory skupy i neizmenno umestny. Nei͡arkie i izyskannye, podcherknuto lishennye vneshnikh ėffektov, ėti stikhotvorenii͡a vosprinimai͡utsi͡a udivitelʹno legko i ostai͡utsi͡a v pami͡ati nadolgo.

Nowadays Bunin is known mainly as a brilliant prose writer, but he considered himself primarily a poet, and his poems enjoyed wide popularity both in Russia and in emigration, among readers of the Russian diaspora.Ivan Bunin in verse was exactly the same as in prose — an ideal stylist with a unique sense of the word. His poetics are nobly simple, his images are refined and jeweler-like, his metaphors are stingy and invariably appropriate. Soft and refined, emphatically devoid of external effects, these poems are perceived surprisingly easily and remain in memory for a long time.