Download or read book Swedish Poets of the Seventeenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The North To the North written by Judith Moffett and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith Moffett presents substantial selections of five important nineteenth-century Swedish poets in formal translation, with en face text, critical and biographical introductory essays, and notes. Each of the poets—Esaias Tegnér, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Viktor Rydberg, Gustaf Fröding, and Erik Axel Karlfeldt—made a significant contribution to Swedish literature and was justly famous in his own time. Even today, every Swedish student knows the names of these poets. Noting that much fine Swedish literature remains untranslated, Moffett makes the work of these five important poets available to readers of English. She points out that the dearth of material translated from Swedish to English is particularly notable in poetry, especially rhyming, metrical poetry. Earlier translators have dealt with the poets represented here, but the results have lacked literary merit. Only rarely, in fact, has their work in translation read like English poetry. In preserving the rhyme and meter of the original works, Moffett has chosen a controversial path, with powerful allies on her side. Those who believe the rhyme and rhythm must be carried out in the translation include the late Joseph Brodsky and Richard Wilbur, who says a formal poem stripped of its form has been “watered down to free verse.” Moffett introduces each poet’s section with a biographical essay that sketches the poet’s critical reputation as well as his historical milieu. She identifies obscure references and provides other useful information in the notes to the poems. Several of these poets were members of the Swedish Academy. Karlfeldt was posthumously awarded the Nobel Prize. Even long after his death, Runeberg is regarded as the National Poet of Finland. Fröding in particular continues to be passionately admired by modern Swedes. Moffett, a formal poet translating formal poetry, makes this splendid body of work accessible to the larger audience it deserves.
Download or read book Swedish Poets of the Seventeenth Century written by Reinhold Ahléen and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Swedish Poets of the Seventeenth Century Translations and Biographical Notes by R Ahl en written by Reinhold P. AHLÉEN and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forays Into Swedish Poetry written by Lars Gustafsson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When poet/critic Lars Gustafsson was the editor of Bonniers Litterära Magasin, he was bombarded with the question, “What makes a good poem?” Forays into Swedish Poetry is his answer. The fifteen poems in this volume range across the history of Swedish poetry from the 1640s, at the beginning of the Period of Great Power, to the late twentieth century. Poets as diverse as Skogekär Bergbo, Erik Johan Stagnelius, August Strindberg, and Vilhelm Ekelund are discussed from historical, psychological, and sociopolitical viewpoints. However, Gustafsson includes only those poems he considers excellent. Each essay begins with a presentation of the poem both in Swedish and in English translation. Gustafsson’s analyses are built upon his subjective experiences with poems and poets and upon a more objective structural approach that investigates the actual machinery of the poems. Thus, Gustafsson enlightens us with his always imaginative, sometimes daring analyses, and we learn a great deal about the critic himself in the process. One of his main concerns is what he calls, in his discussion of Edith Södergran, the very mysteriousness of human existence. Time and again, Gustafsson emphasizes the enigmatic, arcane aspects of life in his analyses. In contrast, his vocabulary and approach also bespeak a constant interest in science and technology. In his introduction, Robert T. Rovinsky, the volume’s translator, presents examples of Gustafsson’s various thematic interests as voiced in his poems, several of which are translated here for the first time. While “The Machines” explores his theory of people as automatons and “Conversation between Philosophers” his linguistic pessimism, Gustafsson’s work as a whole shows his enchantment with its major theme: the intrinsic mystery of life.
Download or read book Seven Swedish Poets written by Frederic Fleisher and published by Malmö] : B. Cavefors. This book was released on 1963 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eight Swedish Poets written by Frederic Fleisher and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Four Swedish Poets written by and published by White Pine Press (NY). This book was released on 1989-12-31 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sweden in the Seventeenth Century written by Paul Lockhart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Sweden in the seventeenth century is perhaps one of the most remarkable political success stories of early modern Europe. Little more than a century after achieving independence from Denmark, Sweden - an impoverished and sparsely-populated state - had defeated all of its most fearsome enemies and was ranked amongst the great powers of Europe. In this book, which incorporates the latest research on the subject, Paul Douglas Lockhart: - Surveys the political, diplomatic, economic, social and cultural history of the country, from the beginnings of its career as an empire to its decline at the end of the seventeenth century - Examines the mechanisms that helped Sweden to achieve the status of a great power, and the reasons for its eventual downfall - Emphasises the interplay between social structure, constitutional development, and military necessity Clear and well-written, Lockhart's text is essential reading for all those with an interest in the fascinating history of early modern Sweden.
Download or read book Eight Swedish Poets written by Gunnar Ekelöf and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems for the Occasion written by Claes Gejrot and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Four Swedish Poets written by and published by . This book was released on 1990* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Swedish Poetry written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: 17 Poems, Diwan on the Prince of Emgion, Epistles of Fredman, For the Living and the Dead, Non Serviam (book), Songs of Fredman, The Great Enigma, The Sorrow Gondola.
Download or read book Eleven Swedish Poets written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Four Swedish Poets written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Swedish Poets written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
