Edith Sodergran David Mcduff (5 results)

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. English translation of the complete works by Finnish-Swedish modernist poet Edith Södergran (1892-1923). Translated by David McDuff. 201 pp. Bookplate. Dust jacket has very light fading and fraying.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 'When she died in poverty at 31, Edith SA¶dergran had been dismissed as a mad, megalomaniac aristocrat by most of her Finnish contemporaries. Today she is regarded as Finland's greatest modern poet. Her poems - written in Swedish - are intensely visionary, and have been compared with Rimbaud's, yet they also show deep afi¬nities with Russian poetry, with the work of Blok, Mayakovsky and Severyanin in particular.Born in 1892 of a Finno-Swedish family, Edith SA¶dergran grew up in Raivola, a village on the Russian border, but was educated at a German school in St. Petersburg. Her early influences were Goethe and Heine, and she wrote first in German. The driving force of Edith SA¶dergran's matu.…

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.