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Updated: April 30, 2025
Bjoernson's peasant novels, which are a continuation of Grundtvig and Blicher, are, by their harmony and their peaceable relations to all that is, an outcome of love of common sense; they have the same anti-Byronic stamp as the School of Common Sense. The movement comes to us ten years later. But Bjoernson has simultaneously something of Romanticism and something of Realism.
proved a lasting stimulus to Bjoernson's genius, and, during the early period of his career, which is now under review, it made its influence felt alike in his tales, his dramas, and his songs. "To see the peasant in the light of the sagas and the sagas in the light of the peasant" he declared to be the fundamental principle of his literary method.
Like the sun you shone upon us and made the best that was in us to grow, but I shall always keep a deep artistic affection for what comes 'after twelve." Henrik Cavling tells the following story of the poet in Paris: "It was one of Bjoernson's peculiarities to go out as a rule without any money in his pocket. He neither owned a purse nor knew the French coins.
Even among those who had followed his career most closely there were few who could anticipate the splendid new outburst of activity for which he was preparing. These years seemed to be a dead time, not only in Bjoernson's life, but also in the general intellectual life of the Scandinavian countries. Dr. Brandes thus describes the feelings of a thoughtful observer during that period of stagnation.
Eight years ago, taking a bird's-eye view of the mountain peaks of contemporary literature, and writing with particular reference to Bjoernson's seventieth birthday, it seemed proper to make the following remarks about the most famous European authors then numbered among living men.
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