Abstract
<jats:p>This article considers Ivan Bunin’s late publications of his early poems in the Paris newspapers Vozrozhdenie (1925-1927) and Poslednie novosti (1929, 1935). Starting in 1925, he published eleven selections of poems in them, sometimes combining familiar and unfamiliar texts from earlier years, and sometimes consisting entirely of poems from the first years of his literary work, previously unpublished, with no surviving manuscripts. All these publications can be considered as part of the creative stocktaking that Bunin undertook, first in the collection Selected Poems (Paris, Sovremennye zapiski, 1929), then in his 11-volume collected works (Berlin, Petropolis, 1934–1936). In this respect, the most significant selections are the five-part cycle An Old Notebook (1926– 1927) and the cycle First Poems (1935). The article pays particular attention to analysing the internal links that unite the texts of these cycles into a rounded poetical statement and to the question of how poems from the late 1880s to the early 1900s, without reliable sources in Bunin’s previous literary output, should be incorporated into a scholarly critical edition of his works.</jats:p>