The Poet Who Created Herself: The Collected Letters of Edith Sodergran to Hagar Olsson With hagar Olsson's Commentary and the Complete Letters of Edith Sodergran to Elmer Diktonius - Brossura

Södergran, Edith

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1909408212 ISBN 13: 9781909408210

Casa editrice: Dufour Editions, 2015

Riassunto

Edith Södergran's vital, compelling and very personal poems have been translated into many languages, and several times into English. Written for the most part when she was dying of tuberculosis in a remote Finnish frontier village only a short train journey away from revolutionary Petrograd, they are a major contribution to European modernism. These letters are almost all that remains to us of her work, apart from the poetry. The most personal of them were written between 1919 and 1923 to two like-minded young Finland-Swedish writers, Hagar Olsson and Elmer Diktonius. They are unusually spontaneous and show Södergran in many moods, passionate and caring, intransigent, desperate for human contact, and racked by religious doubts that threaten to stifle the very poetry for which she lived. The collection is accompanied by an introduction and notes which both contextualize the letters and greatly enhance our understanding of Södergran's life and poetry."

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Dufour Editions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1909408212
• ISBN 13: 9781909408210
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Germania