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...lyric character, the sturdy Danish peasant and healthy Danish girl...
However, let us risk it. Let us declare positively that this particular "Bok of Danish Verse" is different. What the exigencies of text and interpretation may have been, we do not know; we do not want to know. We know only that the translators, to summon Coleridge, "first studied patiently, meditated deeply, understood minutely, till knowledge, become habitual and intuitive," linked itself to natural poetic felicity and power. The rest, the process of gestation, the travail and torment, we prefer to surmise. For the present translators are, as they ought to be, poets--fundamentally-and poets, even the more, that...
Every poem (the number is generous) in one way or another asserts the Dane. From Oehlenschlager, who is perhaps the most inexorably national, to Jensen, who is proudly nostalgic, the collection celebrates Denmark. Oehlenschlager sets the filial tradition. Everything must be Danish. for landscape, beech forest and the blue Sound...
Together with Mr. S. F. Damon '14, also of the English Department, he recently spent several months studying in Denmark on the American-Scandinavian Foundation and collecting material for "A Book of Danish Poems", which will be the first American anthology of modern Danish lyrics...
...comet has been discovered by the astronomer Baade of Hamburg, Germany, according to a cablegram received by the University Observatory from Copenhagen. The discovery was made last Thursday, October 19, and the comet was subsequently observed on Sunday by the Danish astronomer Stroemgren at Copenhagen...