Dick Ringler. Bard of Iceland: Jonas Hallgrimsson, Poet and Scientist.(Book Review)

From: Scandinavian Studies | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: Amory, Frederic | Copyright information

Dick Ringler. Bard of Iceland: Jonas Hallgrimsson, Poet and Scientist. Madison: U Wisconsin P, 2002. Pp. i-xiv + 4-74.

Sight unseen, the book of Dick Ringler suggests a literary biography of a major Icelandic poet of the first half of the nineteenth century, but though he indeed provides a slim biography of the poet--a biographical sketch--in the first seventy-five pages of the book, the main purpose of the volume is far more ambitious, namely, to translate the represent...

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