OEHLENSCHLAGER, (Adam Gottlob, 1779-1850)

NORDISKE DIGTE

      Kiobenhavn: Andreas Seidelin, 1807.. First edition. Octavo, 17.2 cm, hardcover, contemporary (original?) marbled boards and leather spine, spine label. [4], (xxxviii), (426) pp. Joints rubbed; chips to head of spine; boards rubbed, worn at outer corners; some foxing to text, mainly ear ly and late; a VG clean copy otherwise, tight in the binding. Adam Oehlenschlager, poet and dramatist, was the leading figure of the Romantic movement in Denmark. His DIGTE (1803) was a landmark in Danish poetry and he became an major influence for later Danish writers. With the publication of this book (NORDIC POEMS in English), "he turned Nordic mythology and legend into a living source of inspiration for literature and cultural life and breathed new life into Danish drama" - Johan de Mylius . He visited Goethe in Weimar and Madame de Stael in Paris while abroad in 1805-09. Oehlenschlager has been known as the national poet of Denmark, and was in 1829 named Scandinavian poet laureate..