Jónas Hallgrímsson

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Ljodmaeli
Jonas Hallgrimsson
Manufacturer: Reykjavik: Helgafel, 1947
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000P474PU

Bard of Iceland: Jónas Hallgrímsson, Poet and Scientist

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Skillfully gathered with astute and insightful commentary

Bard of Iceland: Jónas Hallgrímsson, Poet and Scientist
Dick Ringler , and Jonas Hallgrimsson
Manufacturer: B University of Wisconsin Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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Bard of Iceland makes available for the first time in any language other than Icelandic an extensive selection of works by Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807-1845), the most important poet of modern Iceland. Jónas was also Iceland's first professionally trained geologist and an active contributor in a number of other scientific fields: geography, botany, zoology, and archaeology. He played a key role as well in Iceland's struggle to gain independence from Denmark. "Descriptive power and fullness of spirit were the hallmarks of his soul," wrote a contemporary admirer. Dick Ringler, one of the premier scholars of Icelandic literature in the world, offers a substantial biography of Jónas, a representative selection of his most important poems, and some of his prose work in science and belles lettres. Ringler also provides extended commentaries and an essay on Icelandic prosody.

The poems are translated into English equivalents of their original complex meters in Icelandic and Danish. As a poet Jónas was intimately familiar with his nation's medieval literary inheritance—the sagas and eddas—and also with the groundbreaking work of contemporary German and Danish Romanticism (Chamisso, Heine, Oehlenschläger). A master of poetic form, Jónas not only exploited and enlarged the possibilities of traditional eddic and skaldic meters, but introduced the sonnet, triolet stanza, terza and ottava rima, and blank verse into the Icelandic metrical repertory.

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Skillfully gathered with astute and insightful commentary.......2003-01-10

Translated into English for the first time by Dick Ringler (Professor Emeritus of English and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), Bard Of Iceland: Jonas Hallgrimsson, Poet And Scientist is an extensive, 474-page compilation of and commentary upon the poetry of Jonas Hallgrimsson (1807-1845), a Renaissance-style scientist who contributed to geography, botany, zoology, and archaeology. His life, his struggle to help Iceland gain independence from Denmark, and his mastery of poetic verse in context are all showcased in this impressive literary collection, skillfully gathered with astute and insightful commentary by an accomplished Scandinavian literary academician and expert.

Ljodmaeli. Eptir Jonas Hallgrimsson. B[rynijolfur] Pjetursson [1810-1851] og K[onradur] Gislason [1808-1891] hafa sjed um prentuaina.

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Ljodmaeli. Eptir Jonas Hallgrimsson. B[rynijolfur] Pjetursson [1810-1851] og K[onradur] Gislason [1808-1891] hafa sjed um prentuaina.
Jonas [1807-1845]. HALLGRIMSSON
Manufacturer: Kaupmannahofn: Hja J. D. Kvisti, boka prentara, 1847 (1945)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000JFHKKO

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