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Chickweed Wintergreen: Selected Poems
Harry Martinson
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Description for Chickweed Wintergreen: Selected Poems
Paperback. First substantial selection of for English-language readers of the poetry of Harry Martinson, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 Translator(s): Fulton, Robin. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
Harry Martinson (1904-78) sailed the oceans from 1920 to 1927 as an escape from an unhappy childhood in rural southwest Sweden. Returning to his native tracts, he devoted himself to writing and eventually became one of the best-known authors of his time, his books appealing widely both to academics and to the general reader. His election to the Swedish Academy in 1949 was seen as a gesture towards a generation of more or less self-educated working-class writers, and he shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with novelist Eyvind Johnson. Sections of the Swedish press responded with such vehemence to ... Read more
Harry Martinson (1904-78) sailed the oceans from 1920 to 1927 as an escape from an unhappy childhood in rural southwest Sweden. Returning to his native tracts, he devoted himself to writing and eventually became one of the best-known authors of his time, his books appealing widely both to academics and to the general reader. His election to the Swedish Academy in 1949 was seen as a gesture towards a generation of more or less self-educated working-class writers, and he shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with novelist Eyvind Johnson. Sections of the Swedish press responded with such vehemence to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852248871
SKU
V9781852248871
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99-21
About Harry Martinson
Harry Martinson was born at Jamshog, Sweden, in 1904. He was left an orphan at an early age, and after a chequered childhood, in which the children's homes and institutions were as numerous as the escapes, he went to sea at the age of 16, spending six years of his life on board various ships and as a workman in ... Read more
Reviews for Chickweed Wintergreen: Selected Poems
His inimitable voice, his 'life's language' retained its measured intensity to the very end. For the first time in English, thanks to Robin Fulton's chiseled translations, we can now read this important poet at length.
World Literature Today
Martinson's writings mirror many of the great issues of the 20th century. These are social injustices and dictatorships, war and ... Read more
World Literature Today
Martinson's writings mirror many of the great issues of the 20th century. These are social injustices and dictatorships, war and ... Read more