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Selected Poems (Penguin modern European poets)

โœ Scribed by Paavo Haavikko, Tomas Transtromer

Year
1974
Tongue
English
Leaves
126
Edition
First Edition
Category
Library
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Hague, born in 1908, is one of Norway's outstanding poets. He has spent his life in Ulvik, a small town in the Hardanger area of Western Norway, and has made a living off the apple crop from his orchard, an acre in size. This large and diverse selection is drawn from all phases of his work. His poems, though deeply rooted in his western Norwegian landscape, are universal in their everyday subject matter, wry humour and an economy of language reminiscent of W C Williams or Robert Francis.

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