MOMENTAN AUSVERKAUFT
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMaia Press The Limited, T.H.E.
ISBN-101904559387
ISBN-139781904559382
eBay Product ID (ePID)73581448
Product Key Features
Original LanguageNorwegian
Book TitleJan Van Huysum's Flower Piece
Number of Pages90 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
TopicEuropean / General, European / Scandinavian
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Poetry
AuthorHenrik Wergeland
FormatHardcover
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2009-437399
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal839.8216
SynopsisThe painting Vase with Flowers by the Dutch artist Jan van Huysum was in a private collection just outside Christiania (now Oslo) when the Norwegian firebrand and poet Henrik Wergeland saw it early in 1840. It inspired him to write his best-known work, an extraordinary tour-de-force of Nordic Romanticism. The poem adopts a free attitude towards historical events and people, refers to fictitious works of art by real painters, and zigzags between verse and prose in a glorious rejection of conventional literary form. It represents the triumph of Romanticism, its main theme the terrible price of beauty, the high existential cost of art. Translated by John Irons.
LC Classification NumberPT8937.J313 2008
