Essays on Scandinavian Literature

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Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen is about famous Scandinavian authors like Alexander Kielland, Hans Christian Andersen, and Georg Brandes. Excerpt: "Björnstjerne Björnson is the first Norwegian poet who can in any sense be called national. The national genius, with its limitations as well as its virtues, has found its living embodiment in him. Whenever he opens his mouth it is as if the nation itself were speaking."

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