Edith Sodergran : Modernist Poet in Finland (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)

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Edith Sodergran: Modernist Poet in Finland is a very sober and chaste piece of scholarly work, which preserves a temperate distance from the object at which it is intensely directed. It is a work based on a very thorough knowledge and a very keen understanding not only of Edith Sodergran and her poetry, but also of the unique Finland-Swedish and Russian-German blend of cultural environment from which Edith Sodergran's poetry must have received its incentive. ... Schoolfield runs through Edith Sodergran's poetry, giving a vast number of her poems minute, sensitive, and sensible attention. Not only are his comments admirably distinct, but they are also of a kind that opens a poetic universe to us. From that point of view Schoolfield's book on Edith Sodergran ... is superior to any single book that has up to now been written about her.Scandinavian Studies


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