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But young Ibsen was not a favorite even with the girls, whom he alarmed and disconcerted. One of the young ladies of Grimstad in after years attempted to describe the effect which the poet made upon them. They had none of them liked him, she said, "because" she hesitated for the word "because he was so spectral."
It was a stirring time, in 1848, and all generous young blood was flowing fast in the same direction. Since Ibsen's death, Due has published a very lively paper of recollections of the old Grimstad days. He says: His daily schedule admitted few intervals for rest or sleep. Yet I never heard Ibsen complain of being tired. His health was uniformly good.
They were keen enough, it seems, to rouse great resentment in Grimstad. There is evidence to show that the lad had docility enough, at all events, to look about for some aid in the composition of Norwegian prose. We should know nothing of it but for a passage in Ibsen's later polemic with Paul Jansenius Stub of Bergen.
What Blackwood's so basely insinuated of Keats "Back to the shop, Mr. John, stick to plasters, pills and ointment-boxes," inappropriate to the author of Endymion, was strictly true of the author of Peer Gynt. Curiosity and hero-worship once took the author of these lines to Grimstad. It is a marvellous object-lesson on the development of genius.
By the respectable citizens of Grimstad and even Grimstad had its little inner circle of impenetrable aristocracy he regarded as "not quite nice." The apothecary's assistant was a bold young man, who did not seem to realize his menial position.
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