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Nordic Romanticism‘A poet, however, whom we fear that few Swedes know about’: Hellen Lindgren’s 1892 Essay on Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nordic Romanticism: ‘A poet, however, whom we fear that few Swedes know about’: Hellen Lindgren’s... [Carl-Ludwig Conning explores a previously undocumented aspect of the Swedish reception of Percy Shelley. In 1892, the literary critic Hellen Lindgren published the first major Swedish analysis of Shelley along with Fröding’s translation of Shelley’s ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’. Conning’s chapter investigates the cultural-historical context for Lindgren’s introduction of Shelley to Swedish readers and reads Lindgren’s account of Shelley alongside the literary manifestos of the Swedish writers Fröding and von Heidenstam. Conning shows how Lindgren found in Shelley a particularly compelling integration of idealism and materialism, thereby offering a potential resolution to a dichotomy which was much debated in Swedish literature at the time as part of an ongoing transition from national Romanticism toward Naturalism. Conning also provides a full English translation of Lindgren’s essay.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Nordic Romanticism‘A poet, however, whom we fear that few Swedes know about’: Hellen Lindgren’s 1892 Essay on Percy Bysshe Shelley

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print Book Series
Editors: Duffy, Cian; Rix, Robert W.
Conning, Carl-Ludwig
Nordic Romanticism — Aug 12, 2022
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Springer International Publishing
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[Carl-Ludwig Conning explores a previously undocumented aspect of the Swedish reception of Percy Shelley. In 1892, the literary critic Hellen Lindgren published the first major Swedish analysis of Shelley along with Fröding’s translation of Shelley’s ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’. Conning’s chapter investigates the cultural-historical context for Lindgren’s introduction of Shelley to Swedish readers and reads Lindgren’s account of Shelley alongside the literary manifestos of the Swedish writers Fröding and von Heidenstam. Conning shows how Lindgren found in Shelley a particularly compelling integration of idealism and materialism, thereby offering a potential resolution to a dichotomy which was much debated in Swedish literature at the time as part of an ongoing transition from national Romanticism toward Naturalism. Conning also provides a full English translation of Lindgren’s essay.]

Published: Aug 12, 2022

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