The Poetry of Henrik Ibsen - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By Henrik Ibsen

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• Language: English
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• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781788775939

Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was a Norwegian playwright who thrived during the late nineteenth century. He began his professional career at age 15 as a pharmacist’s apprentice. He would spend his free time writing plays, publishing his first work Catilina in 1850, followed by The Burial Mound that same year. He eventually earned a position as a theatre director and began producing his own material. Ibsen’s prolific catalogue is noted for depicting modern and real topics. His major titles include Brand, Peer Gynt and Hedda Gabler.

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The Complete Works of

HENRIK IBSEN

VOLUME 25 OF 29

The Poetry

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2013

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‘The Poetry’

Henrik Ibsen: Parts Edition (in 29 parts)

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Henrik Ibsen: Parts Edition

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HENRIK IBSEN

IN 29 VOLUMES

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The Plays

1, Catiline

2, The Burial Mound

3, Lady Inger of Oestraat

4, The Feast at Solhaug

5, Olaf Liljekrans

6, The Vikings at Helgeland

7, Love’s Comedy

8, The Pretenders

9, Brand

10, Peer Gynt

11, The League of Youth

12, Emperor and Galilean

13, Pillars of Society

14, A Doll’s House

15, Ghosts

16, An Enemy of the People

17, The Wild Duck

18, Rosmersholm

19, The Lady from the Sea

20, Hedda Gabler

21, The Master Builder

22, Little Eyolf

23, John Gabriel Borkman

24, When We Dead Awaken

The Poems

25, The Poetry

The Norwegian Texts (De norske tekster)

26, The Original Texts

The Non-Fiction

27, Speeches and New Letters

The Criticism

28, The Criticism

The Biography

29, The Life of Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse

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The Poetry

INTRODUCTION TO IBSEN’S POETRY by Fydell Edmund Garrett

IT was early in his professional career as a statesman-journalist that Garrett fell under the spell of Ibsen. His health was already undermined, but his amazing energy and power of rapid work remained; and the translation of Brand, on which he was long more or less at work, was actually accomplished with almost incredible rapidity in the year 1894. Many passages were marked for revision in his own copy, but only a relatively small number of corrections or improvements were actually made in manuscript. They have all been embodied in this re-issue. In 1895 he went to South Africa as editor of the Cape Times, but was compelled to return in 1899 with wrecked health. As soon as he was able to do anything, he gave such strength as he had to South Africa, where his main interest centred to the end of his life, but Ibsen still retained his hold on him, and he amused some of the many hours in which speaking or moving meant instant danger by pencilling tentative translations between the lines and on the margins of his copy of Ibsen’s Digte. As these translations were gradually elaborated he sent many of them, one by one, to the Westminster Gazette, where they appeared, from May to September, in 1903. Others he dictated in their provisionally completed form to Mrs. Garrett, but never published; and some were left to be picked out with more or less security from the various suggested renderings of the manuscript notes. In two instances, only, the editors have had to supply or modify a word or two on their own responsibility. Had Garrett lived he might have further modified any or all of his versions, for some of those already printed were revised and improved from time to time in manuscript. All these Poems are now collected and arranged in the first section of this volume. In every case a note is added to explain the condition