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17 june 1974 helsinki , finland tammela , finland rabbe enckell 3 march 1903 rabbe enckell.jpg rabbe enckell
 rabbe arnfinn enckell
rabbe enckell

rabbe arnfinn enckell -lrb- 3 march 1903 -- 17 june 1974 -rrb- was a finnish author , writer and poet .
enckell is regarded as one of the stalwarts of the swedo-finnish poetic revival that began in the 1920s .
enckell was born in tammela , tavastia proper .
he studied art in france and italy .
in 1923 he brought out his first poetry collection , entitled `` dikter '' .
it was a collection of impressionistic nature poems .
the collection and its sequel , flöjtblåsarlycka -lrb- `` the flutist 's happiness '' -rrb- , which was published in 1925 , were contained enckell 's vivid description of the changes in nature .
enckell was a modernist .
for a year in 1928-29 he worked for the avant-garde journal `` quosego '' .
he then wrote a couple of semi-autobiographical novels , which included `` ljusdunkel -lrb- 1930 -rrb- .
he returned to poetry with the publication of `` the cistern of spring '' -lrb- 1931 -rrb- .
he followed it with `` the sounding board '' -lrb- 1935 -rrb- .
the modernist streak in his poetry prompted comparisons with t.s. eliot .
enckell brought out another collection of poems , `` the vault '' , which was published in 1937 .
he died in helsinki , aged 71 .
