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He upheld poetry that was actual and palpable, consequently had little appreciation for poetry, that, like Paludan-Mueller's, was the perfection of thought and form, and boldly disapproved of my admiration for it. It was likewise through Frederik Nutzhorn that I, when a young beginner in the difficult art of life, became acquainted with Madame Magdalene Thoresen.
She had no moral prejudices, and had written Signe's Story as a protest against conventional morality; but she was none the less thoroughly permeated by Christian and humane ideas of morality, and there was no element of rebellion in her disposition. On the whole, she was more a woman than an authoress. Her nature was tropical in comparison with Mrs. Charite Paludan-Mueller's North Pole nature.
Grundtvig, with his popular manner, his appreciation of the unsophisticated peasant nature, had points of contact with the pupils of Rousseau. Moralising works are Heiberg's A Soul after Death, Paludan-Mueller's Adam Homo, and Kierkegaard's Either-Or. The funny thing about the defence of marriage contained in this last book is that it defends what no one in Denmark attacks.
Then it was that Paludan-Mueller's prologue, recited by our idolised actor, Michael Wiehe, caused me the third thrilling moment. Listening to the words of the poet from a bad place in the gallery, I was hardly the only one who felt strangely stirred, as Wiehe, letting his eyes roam round the theatre, said: Oh! that the young of the North might one day worthily play Their part!
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