The Wild Chorus
Publisher: Human Side Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Dallas, Texas, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 108
Copyright date: 2019
Other titles: Det vilde kor
Description: Translated for the first time into English, The Wild Chorus (Det vilde Kor) was the only book of poetry published by Knut Hamsun (1859-1952). Its publication in 1904 came in the turbulent decade following the success of his novels Hunger and Mysteries. Hounded across Europe by a female stalker, unhappily married and later divorced, drinking heavily and bankrupted by his gambling, Hamsun returned to his childhood home at Hamarøy in the far north of Norway. There he lived alone in a turf hut and composed many of the poems in this collection, inspired by the arctic summer, the forests, mountains and fjords. The book resulted in a revival of lyric poetry in Norway, with these poems to this day continuing to be read and admired.
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Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments vii; title: Foreword by Knut Hamsun ix; title: Translator’s Introduction xiii; title: Translator’s Note xvii; title: With Red Roses 3; title: Away 4; title: What Do We Know 6; title: In the Spring of Youth 8; title: Summer Night 10; title: Cello 11; title: Let Spring Sound Out Over the Earth 13; title: Autumn Day 16; title: Halling Dance 18; title: Forest Song 21; title: From the Arches 22; title: Fever Poem 23; title: The Skerry 31; title: The King 33; title: My Grave 35; title: Drama of Youth 37; title: Lina 38; title: After the Party 39; title: Autumn Night 40; title: The Mandrake 42; title: The Ideal Home 48; title: All Gone 49; title: Little Ballad 50; title: Waiting 51; title: The Old Spinster 53; title: Tora’s Song 55; title: A Consideration 56; title: The Sigh of Creation 58; title: For Miss S * * * 61; title: Apology 63; title: What is that Soughing in the Night? 64; title: In One Hundred Years All Is Forgotten 66; title: By the Fire 68; title: To You In Here, Goodnight 69; title: Tone 70; title: After Parting 71; title: The Words of Svend Herlufsen 72; title: Letter to Byron in Heaven 76; title: Bøcklin’s Death 81; title: Bjørnson 83; title: Evening Glow 86; title: Song of the Wild Celery Seeker 87; title: Reunion 88; title: Hazy Evening 89; title: Home from the Party 90; title: Abdullah’s Hope 92; title: Capstan Shanty 93; title: When the Rain Comes 95; title: Trumpet 97; title: Bibliography 99