The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen, Volume 1Charles Scribner's sons, 1911 |
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ANNA BENGT Bergen BIÖRN breast child Christiania Christiania Theatre comes Count Sture Dame Margit Danish dare daughter dear Denmark door dramatic dream EINAR HUK Elina Gyldenlöve ERIK eyes fair FALK Feast at Solhoug FINN flower goblet goes Gudmund Alfson guest GULDSTAD HALM hand heard heart Heaven Henrik Henrik Ibsen hither HOUSE-CARL Hush Ibsen JENS BIELKE King King's Knut Gesling Lady Inger Gyldenlöve Laughing life's light LIND listen look Love's MISS JAY mother never night NILS LYKKE NILS STENSSON Nils Sture noble Norway Norwegian nought OLAF SKAKTAVL Östråt Peter Kanzler play poet pray seems SIGNË Sir Councillor sister Smiling Softly song soul stand Sten Sture's STIVER STRAWMAN sure SVANHILD Sweden tell things thou thought to-night Twas twill verandah Vikings at Helgeland voice whispered wife word young
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Page 12 - In Brand the hero is an embodied protest against the poverty of spirit and half-heartedness that Ibsen rebelled against in his countrymen. In Peer Gynt the hero is himself the embodiment of that spirit. In Brand the fundamental antithesis, upon which, as its central theme, the drama is constructed, is the contrast between the spirit of compromise on the one hand, and the motto ' everything or nothing ' on the other. And Peer Gynt is the very incarnation of a compromising dread of decisive committal...
Page 1 - My book is poetry; and if it is not, then it will be. The conception of poetry in our country, in Norway, shall be made to conform to the book...
Page 266 - I'm blest if it is! To the innermost centre, It's nothing but swathings — each smaller and smaller. — Nature is witty! [Throws the fragments away. The devil take brooding! If one goes about thinking, one's apt to stumble.
Page 8 - Denmark they have discovered much more satire in it than was intended by me. Why can they not read the book as a poem ? For as such I wrote it.
Page 1 - Peer's identification of the Sphinx with the Boyg (Act IV. Sc. 12) he characterises as " Tankesvindel " — thought-swindling, or, as we might say, juggling with thought. The general upshot of his considerations is that Peer Gynt belongs, with Goldschmidt's Corsaren, to the domain of polemical journalism. It " is not poetry, because in the transmutation of reality into art it falls halfway short of the demands both of art and of reality.
Page 279 - It's impossible. Here I have got my orders. Look, here it is written: Peer Gynt shalt thou summon. He has set at defiance his life's design; clap him into the ladle with other spoilt goods.
Page 104 - Old Man: True enough; in that and in more we're alike. Yet morning is morning, and even is even, and there is a difference all the same. @Now let me tell you wherein it lies: Out yonder, under the shining vault, among men the saying goes: "Man, be thyself!
Page 12 - ... of significance, I cannot do better than quote some paragraphs from the admirable summary of the drama given by Mr. PH Wicksteed in his Four Lectures on Henrik Ibsen.1 Mr. Wicksteed is in such perfect sympathy with Ibsen in the stage of his development marked by Brand and Peer Gynt, that he has understood these poems, in my judgment, at least as well as any other commentator, whether German or Scandinavian. He writes as follows: "In Brand the hero is an embodied protest against the poverty of...