About the book: 1931 / The first collection of the poetess. In the article “Women’s” poetry, the strict, demanding and often bilious poet and critic Vladislav Khodasevich wrote about Knorring’s first book: “...Now in front of me lie two collections published not so long ago by young poetesses Irina Knorring and Ekaterina Bakunina. I already happened to mention the first of them in connection with the collection of the “Union of Young Poets.” Both books belong to the phenomena of “female” lyricism, with its typical features: in both, the poetics are underdeveloped, much of it is of the nature of accident and caprice; and the very form of the verse is reminiscent of a diary, trustingly opened in front of a casual reader. In Knorring, this intimate tone is more consistent: it is reflected in the themes, and in the vocabulary, and in the very sound of the verse, and even on the cover, where the author’s handwriting says: “Poems about myself.” "... However, there are significant differences between these books, which, in my opinion, testify rather in favor of Irina Knorring. Akhmatova’s influence (even if not completely, not fully understood) gives Knorring’s poems a much more literary character. Like Akhmatova, Knorring sometimes manages to make the “femininity” of her poems a deliberate device - and this is already a big step forward. To the same Akhmatova, Knorring owes a sense of proportion, a certain restraint, caution, and, in general, taste, which leaves her relatively rarely... Knorring is feminine... Mrs. Knorring takes a step into literature that seems to be shaky, uncertain and sometimes wrong. Nevertheless, I would like to predict a more elegant literary future for her. In her collection, several poems can be called quite successful. Let's hope for further meetings with this still inexperienced, who has not found herself, but still gifted and somehow sweet poetess.