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This digital document is an article from Scandinavian Studies, published by Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study on June 22, 2002. The length of the article is 1090 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Bengt E. Anderson. Att rannsaka en barndom: Harry Martinsons Nasslorna blomma: Tillkomst och tematik.(Book Review)
Author: Paul Norlen
Publication: Scandinavian Studies (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2002
Publisher: Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
Volume: 74Issue: 2Page: 228(3)

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In 1991 Vekerum produced this new translation by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjoberg. There were two versions, the standard edition, and the limited (numbered) edition. Both are extremely scarce. This is the standard edition. ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Harry (Edmund) Martinson, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2774 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on February 25, 1999. The length of the article is 739 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Harry Martinson, el poeta y el viaje.(poeta; obra literaria)(TT: Harry Martinson, the poet abroad.)(TA: poet; literary work)
Author: Javier Sicilia
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: February 25, 1999
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 45Issue: 2384Page: 70

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Winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize for Literature (with fellow Swedish writer Eyvind Johnson), Harry Martinson (1904-1978) was noted for his innovative use of language combined with his keen observation of nature. He also wrote three volumes of nature essays in the 1930s. Views from a Tuft of Grass, however, was published late in his life, in 1963, and the essays of this volume reflect a maturer and cleaner style and are less philosophically dense than the earlier works.

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Looking More Closely at Nature's Secrets
Coming upon Harry Martinson's VIEWS FROM A TUFT OF GRASS is a reminder of how few writers and poets have stepped out of the ordinary means of painting visual pictures with words to transcend the written page and enter the ether of the atmosphere that contains all of nature's beauty.

Harry Martinson, born in Sweden in 1904 and awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1974, approached such apparently routine topics - water, boating, maps, etc - in a manner that supported his thesis that reality and imagination must be intermingled in order to illustrate nature through words.Included in this inspiring little book are essays on the subject of nature writing, strongly suggesting that the use of familiar terms to describe unique moments results only in clichés.His message is to urge writers (and readers!) to heighten their sensitivity by pushing the standard limits of descriptive words into a realm that allows a stronger communication of the mysteries of the moments of nature that pass us constantly, for the most part unnoticed.

His language is simple and eloquent: 'In a sky reflected downward on a lake, the clouds whirl around like summer spirits, and as you row across this sky of water your oar dips quietly towards evening like a dark wooden spoon into the cloud-milk'. The book is translated from the Swedish by Lars Nordstrom and Erland Anderson in what seems to be a deeply sensitive manner.This brief book (only 152 pages) should be part of the library of every poet and every reader of poetry.Harry Martinson has much to offer, both in his own writings and in his advice to all of us.Grady Harp, September 06 ... Read more