The North! to the North!
Subtitle: five Swedish poets of the nineteenth century
By: edited and translated by Judith Moffett.
Contributors: Moffett, Judith, 1942-
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng; swe
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Swedish poetry -- 19th century -- Translations into English.; Poets, Swedish -- 19th century.
Genres: Translations into English.
Description: "Judith Moffett presents substantial selections of five important nineteenth-century Swedish poets in formal translation, with en face text, critical and biographical introductory essays, and notes. Each of the poets - Esaias Tegner, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Viktor Rydberg, Gustaf Froding, and Erik Axel Karlfeldt - made a significant contribution to Swedish literature and was justly famous in his own time. Even today, every Swedish student knows the names of these poets."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Some text in Swedish.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-231).
Table of contents: title: Esaias Tegnér, 1782-1846; title: Johan Ludvig Runeberg, 1804-1877; title: Viktor Rydberg, 1828-1895; title: Gustaf Fröding, 1860-1911; title: Erik Axel Karlfeldt, 1864-1931.