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Had its recipient known Bjoernson better, he would in this have found a foundation to build upon. But as things were, I altogether overlooked the honestly meant friendliness in it and merely seized upon the no small portion of it that could not do other than wound. My reply, icy, sharp and in the deeper sense of the word, worthless, was a refusal.
Nevertheless, both poets maintained that they had had a pleasant expedition. A Norwegian question, which had accidentally come up between them, had made them forget all about Alfred de Musset." Finally, a story may be given that is told by Bjoernson himself. "I had a pair of old boots that I wanted to give to a beggar.
Upon the theme thus presented a long and violent discussion raged; but if there be such a thing as an immutable moral law in this matter, it must be that upon which Bjoernson has so squarely and uncompromisingly planted his feet. The other remaining work of this five-year period is the play called "The New System."
Hauch had felt this scenery and the nature of these people, by virtue of his Norwegian birth and his gift of entering into other people's thought; Bjoernson had given unforgettable expression to the feeling of imprisoned longing.
Besides the two above named, these modern plays of Bjoernson are, with their dates, the following: "The King" , "Leonarda" , "The New System" , "A Glove" , "Beyond the Strength I." , "Geography and Love" , "Beyond the Strength II." , "Paul Lange and Tora Parsberg" , "Laboremus" , and "At Storhove" . Since the cessation of Ibsen's activity, Bjoernson has outrun him in the race, adding "Daglannet" , and "When the New Wine Blooms" to the list above given.
Bjoernson was too near to his own country folk to commit such faults as these; he was himself of peasant stock, and all his boyhood life had been spent in close association with men who wrested a scanty living from an ungrateful soil. Although a poet by instinct, he was not afraid of realism, and did not shrink from giving the brutal aspects of peasant life a place upon his canvas.
French influence was dreaded as immoral, and there was but little understanding of either the English language or spirit." But an intellectual renaissance was at hand, an intellectual reawakening with a cosmopolitan outlook, and, Bjoernson was destined to become its leader, much as he had been the leader of the national movement of an earlier decade.
It will be well, however, to make certain distinctions between the life work of Bjoernson and that of the two men whom a common age and common aims bring into inevitable association with him.
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