Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Sidor ...
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
260 : NOTES
of the peasants, and blighted all liberal development, both personal
and political. :
Page 191.
Posr Frsrum. Bjérnson was a decided opponent of the whole system
of decorations and orders, royal and other. Here he attacks the Swed-
ish polar explorer, A. E.von Nordenskjéld (November 18, 1832—August
20, 1901), who earlier had taken the same stand. After Nordenskjéld
had successfully made the Northern Passage, there was a great formal
reception for him on his return to Stockholm, April 24, 1880, at which
King Oskar II decorated him. He also received similar honors from
most of the rulers of Europe. -
Page 192.
RomspaL, Written in 1880 on a lecture tour along the western coast.
The scenery and the people described Bjérnson knew intimately from
his boyhood’s years at Nes and in Molde, and from later visits to his
parents at the former place. Collin says: “The whole poem fits like
a frame about the poet and his life-work. . . . Both with its [Norway’s
scenery’s] violence and brusqueness and with its surprising gentleness
Bjérnson has kinship.” The last line of the poem includes the poet
himself.
Page 198.
Hoicer Dracumann. Probably written in 1879. This Danish pro-
ductive author (and painter), best known as lyric poet and novelist, was
born in 1846 and died in 1908. Htre he received from Bjérnson a reply
to verses of homage addressed by him to the latter in 1878. Drachmann’s
early years were turbulent and revolutionary, full of feuds with every-
body. He belonged to the literary and esthetic Left, opposing all ex-
isting institutions. Bjérnson’s characterization exhibits Drachmann at
the height of his poetic production. His most popular prose book had
recently stirred the Danish national heart and roused the spirit of Scan-
dinavism. The collections of his poems: Songs by the Sea, Tendrils and
Roses, Youth in Poem and Song, he never surpassed. Perhaps the best
were the group of Venetian Songs, written in Venice in the spring of
1876, to which time belongs also his finest story, T2wo Shots. During
the next decade Drachmann underwent an extreme conservative
reaction, but about 1890 returned again to his youthful passion for
rebellion, romantic radicalism, and the religion of esthetic freedom.
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
