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Catharina Ahlgren (1734 – c. 1800), feminist writer, poet, translator, editor, and one of the first identifiable female journalists in Sweden; Per Ahlmark (1939-2018), writer and former leader of the Liberal People's Party; Kurt Almqvist (1912–2001), poet, academic and spiritual figure; August Bernhard Andersson (1877–1961) Dan Andersson ...
Roman Triptych received praise from philosopher and historian Stanisław Grygiel , [4] poet and Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, [1] poet Marek Skwarnicki , [3] and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, [1] [3] several of whom were close personal friends of John Paul II. It was especially popular in Poland, selling out 80% of the initial print run of ...
Swedish agriculture had a system with labourers called statare, who were paid in kind only, with product and housing, comparable with the Anglo-Saxon truck system. Among the few people with this background who made an intellectual career were the writers Ivar Lo-Johansson, Moa Martinson and Jan Fridegård. Their works were important to the ...
In the Völundarkviða, Wayland Smith and his brothers marry valkyries who dress in swan skins.. The "swan maiden" story is a name in folkloristics used to refer to three kinds of stories: those where one of the characters is a bird-maiden, in which she can appear either as a bird or as a woman; those in which one of the elements of the narrative is the theft of the feather-robe belonging to a ...
The poem was published as part of a set of martial poems called the Barrack-Room Ballads. In contrast to Kipling's later poem "The White Man's Burden", "Gunga Din" is named after the Indian and portrays him as a heroic character who is not afraid to face danger on the battlefield as he tends to wounded men. The white soldiers who order Din ...
Manuscript copy of lines 153–174, later revised as lines 150–171 [15]. The Vanity of Human Wishes is a poem of 368 lines, written in closed heroic couplets.Johnson loosely adapts Juvenal's original satire to demonstrate "the complete inability of the world and of worldly life to offer genuine or permanent satisfaction."
Carl Michael Bellman (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈkɑːɭ ˈmîːkaɛl ˈbɛ̌lːman] ⓘ; 4 February 1740 – 11 February 1795) [1] was a Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, poet, and entertainer. He is a central figure in the Swedish song tradition and remains a powerful influence in Swedish music , as well as in Scandinavian literature ...
The May Swenson Poetry Award, sponsored by Utah State University Press, is a competitive prize granted annually to an outstanding collection of poetry in English. Open to published and unpublished writers, with no limitation on subject, the competition honors May Swenson as one of America's most vital and provocative poets of the twentieth century.