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The poet who created herself : the complete letters of Edith Södergran to Hagar Olsson with Hagar Olsson's commentary and the complete letters of Edith Södergran to Elmer Diktonius

Title
The poet who created herself : the complete letters of Edith Södergran to Hagar Olsson with Hagar Olsson's commentary and the complete letters of Edith Södergran to Elmer Diktonius / translated and edited by Silvester Mazzarella.
Author
Södergran, Edith, 1892-1923.
Publication
[Norwich] : Norvik Press ; Chester Springs, PA : U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions, 2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Olsson, Hagar, 1893-1978.
  • Mazzarella, Silvester.
Description
240 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
Summary
"Edith Sodergran's vital, compelling and very personal poems have been translated in many languages, and several times into English. Written for the most part when she was dying of tuberculosis in a remote Finnish frontier village only a short train journey away from revolutionary Petrograd, they are a major contribution to European modernism. These letters are almost all the remains to us of her work, apart from the poetry. The most personal of them were written between 1919 and 1923 to two like-minded young Finland-Swedish writers, Hagar Olsson and Elmer Diktonius. They are unusually spontaneous and show Sodergran in many moods, passionate and caring, intransigent, desperate for human contact, and racked by religious doubts that threaten to stifle the very poetry for which she lived. The collection is accompanied by an introduction and notes which both contextualize the letters and greatly enhance our understanding of Sodergran's life and poetry."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Norvik Press series A ; no. 18
Uniform Title
Series A (Norvik Press) ; no. 18.
Subject
  • Södergran, Edith, 1892-1923 > Correspondence
  • Olsson, Hagar, 1893-1978 > Correspondence
  • Diktonius, Elmer, 1896-1961 > Correspondence
  • Diktonius, Elmer, 1896-1961
  • Olsson, Hagar, 1893-1978
  • Södergran, Edith, 1892-1923
  • Södergran, Edith
  • Authors, Swedish > Correspondence
  • Authors, Swedish
  • Brief
Genre/Form
Personal correspondence.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-240).
ISBN
  • 1870041461
  • 9781870041461
LCCN
2001431598
OCLC
  • ocm48877765
  • 48877765
  • SCSB-1220402
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library