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The two volumes which contain the greater part of Bjoernson's poetry not dramatic in form were both published in 1870. One of them was the collection of his "Poems and Songs," the other was the epic cycle, "Arnljot Gelline," the only long poem that he has written.
We have not men to place separately in the various frames. III. Realistic Art. There is so far only an attempt at a realistic art. Thus, in Bjoernson's Arne and Sigurd Slembe. Richardt corresponds in our lyric art as an artist in language to the poets of the Parnasse, while Heiberg's philosophy and most of his poetry may be included in the School of Common Sense.
She turned the conversation upon Bjoernson's Fisher Girl, which had just been published, and which had been reviewed by The Fatherland the evening before, declaring that she disagreed altogether with the reviewer, who had admired in the Fisher Girl a psychological study of a scenic genius. "It is altogether a mistake," said Mrs.
From the time of Bjoernson's first appearance he had attached himself so enthusiastically and inviolably to him that by the general public he was almost regarded as Bjoernson's herald. At every opportunity he emphatically laid down Bjoernson's importance and as a set-off fell upon those who might be supposed to be his rivals. Ibsen, in particular, received severe handling.
Only a rapid glance may be taken at the books of the five years following upon the publication of "The King." The story of "Magnhild," planned several years earlier, represents Bjoernson's return to fiction after a long dramatic interlude. There are still peasants in this story, but they are different from the figures of the early tales, and the atmosphere of the work is modern.
Originally incited thereto by Bjoernson's peasant stories, she had then published her first tales, The Student and Signe's Story, which belonged, half to Norwegian, half to Danish literature, and had been well received.
Quite a short while after my arrival April 12, 1870 I saw for the first time Sarah Bernhardt, who had just begun to make a name at the Odeon. She was playing in George Sand's beautiful and mutinous drama L'autre, from which the great-grandmother in Bjoernson's Leonarda is derived.
No translation can ever quite reproduce their cadence or their feeling; they illustrate the one aspect of Bjoernson's many-sided genius that must be taken on trust by those who cannot read his language. A friend once asked him upon what occasion he had felt most fully the joy of being a poet. His reply was as follows:
Writing now eight years later, at the time when Bjoernson's death has plunged his country and the world in mourning, it is impressive to note that of the five men constituting the group above designated, Tolstoy alone survives to carry on the great literary tradition of the nineteenth century.
In Scandinavian literature, its chief representative had been the Danish novelist, Blicher, who had written with insight and charm of the peasantry of Jutland. But in the treatment of peasant life by most of Bjoernson's predecessors there had been too much of the de haut en bas attitude; the peasant had been drawn from the outside, viewed philosophically, and invested with artificial sentiment.
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