Collection of Poems. Book 2. 1903–1909
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| name = Collection of Poems. Book 2. 1903–1909
| title_orig = Собрание стихов. Книга 2. 1903–1909
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| author = Zinaida Gippius
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| country = Russian Empire
| language = Russian
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| genre = Russian Symbolism
| publisher = Musaget (Мусагет) Publishers, 1910
| media_type = Print (hardback & paperback)
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| preceded_by = Collection of Poems. 1889–1903
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Collection of Poems. Book 2. 1903–1909 ({{langx|ru|Собрание стихов. Книга вторая. 1889–1903}}) is the second book of poetry by Zinaida Gippius and comprised 62 of her poems. It was published in 1910 by Musaget (Мусагет) Publishers.{{cite web | author = Uchyonov, V. V.| date =1989 | url = http://az.lib.ru/g/gippius_z_n/text_0110.shtml |title = Commentaries. Z. N. Gippius. Poems| publisher = Muse Queens. Russian Women Poets, 19th - early 20th c. Sovremennik Publishers // Царицы муз: Русские поэтессы XIX - начала XX вв.| accessdate = 16 May 2015}}{{cite web | author = | date = | url = http://gippius.com/lib/poetry/book/sobranie-stikhov-1889-1903.html|title = Commentaries. The Works by Z.N. Gippius. Vol. II. The Twilight of the Spirit.| publisher = Russkaya Kniga Publishers | accessdate = 16 May 2015}}
Critical reception
The book garnered good reviews. Ivan Bunin called Gippius' poetry 'electric', noticing the special way the oxymoron were used as an electrifying force in the hermetic non-emotional world.{{cite web| author =| url= http://www.krugosvet.ru/enc/kultura_i_obrazovanie/literatura/GIPPIUS_ZINAIDA_NIKOLAEVNA.html| title = Gippius, Zinaida Nikolayevna| publisher = www.krugosvet.ru| accessdate = 2010-10-13}} Innokenty Annensky in his summary of the two Collections lauded the author's 'hint and pause' metaphor technique, and the art of "extracting sonorous chords out of silent pianos."{{cite web| author = Makarenko, Svetlana| url = http://www.peoples.ru/art/literature/poetry/contemporary/gippius/| title = Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius. "My Soul is Love"| publisher=www.peoples.ru| accessdate = 2010-10-13}}
The poet and critic Mikhail Kuzmin greeted the second Collection, noting that it took up exactly where the first one had left off, both presenting "one straight line without ups or downs". Among the book's 'pearls' he mentioned "Wisdom" (Мудрость), "Interruption" (Перебой), "Sonnet's Three Forms" (Три формы сонета), "Malinka", "Little Devil" (Дьяволенокъ) and "Womanly" (Женское). Kuzmin disliked what he saw as "too many abstractions when it comes to expressing the movements of the soul" as well as the author's long-standing and, apparently, Balmont-inspired habit of "forming nouns from all possible kinds of adjectives" which "gives the poems either dryly abstract, or decadent feel."{{cite web | author = Kuzmin, Mikhail| date = 1910| url = http://az.lib.ru/k/kuzmin_m_a/text_1910_gippius_oldorfo.shtml|title = The Second Book by Z. Gippius| publisher = The Apollo magazine // "Аполлонъ", No 8, 1910| accessdate = 16 May 2015}}