Soren Kierkegaard in 1920
Channel: Craig Campbell
Date: 2017-11-16

A Dictionary Of European Literature by Magnus, Laurie Publication date 1920 had an entry on Soren Kierkegaard. I read it into Librivox.org and have uploaded it here. 
Kierkegaard, Soren Aaby (1813-55): Dan. philosopher; in sheer force of thought, the greatest Dane of the 19th cent. We are not here concerned with any comparative estimate of K.’s contributions to philosophy; though it is within our province to note that his influence, undervalued in his lifetime, became effective in later years, when the zest of patriotism and nationality, the strength of the individualist perception, and the wars for right and freedom brought K.’s deeply- wrought speculations into higher relief. He belongs to that little band of fastidious and twice-refined thinkers, who, like Pascal (q.v.) in the 17th cent., and like Renan (q.v.) in the 19th, cleared the air at successive epochs in France. And, like Renan, K, may charged with a share in the making of the doctrines which Nietzsche (q.v.) brought to maturity. These matters do not belong to lit., but we should add that the close of K.’s life was marked by bitter controversy on the subject of Christian ethics. His first and perhaps his best work was Enten-Eller (‘Either-Or’), 1843, publd. under the pen-name of Victor Eremita, in which the rival claims of ethical and aesthetic principles of conduct were explored and contrasted; a series of aphorisms, or loosely connected prose poems of rare beauty in diction, was prefixed to the aesthetic exposition. A second work in the same kind, as distinct from more definitively philosophical writings, was Stadia on Life's Way, 1845, publd. under the pen-name of 
Hilarius Buchbinder. In the following years, K. acknowledged the authorship of these masterworks, which he used in connection with his later polemical and theological writings. 
A Dictionary Of European Literature by Magnus, Laurie Publication date 1920
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.228123