Davíð Stefánsson
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Davíð Stefánsson from Fagriskógur was a famous Iceland
ic poet
and novelist, best known as a poet of humanity.
He was born on 21 January 1895, in Fagriskógur, Eyjafjördur, Iceland and he died on 1 March 1964, Akureyri Iceland.
Davíð Stefánsson came of a cultured yeoman family and was brought up with a love for his homeland, its literature, and its folklore. He frequently journeyed abroad but lived most of his life in the town of Akureyri, where he was a librarian (1925–52). He wrote a powerful novel, Sólon Islandus (1940), about a daydreaming 19th-century vagabond whose intellectual ambitions are smothered by society; a successful play, Gullna hliðið (1941; The Golden Gate, 1967, in Fire and Ice: Three Icelandic Plays); and other prose works, but they are overshadowed by his verse.
Stefánsson’s early poetry, including most of his folk themes and love lyrics, appeared in Svartar fjaðrir (1919; “Black Feathers”), Kvæði (1922; “Poems”), Kveðjur (1924; “Greetings”), and Ný Kvæði (1929; “New Poems”), which were combined and published as a collected volume in 1930. His later poetry—darkening in social satire, reformatory zeal against capitalism and organized religion, and despair over the war—was published as Í byggðum (1933; “Among Human Habitations”), Að norðan (1936; “From the North”), Ný kvæðabók (1947; “A New Book of Poems”), and the posthumous Síðustu ljóð (1966; “Last Poems”). His lyrics often have the delicacy of a cradle song; yet his heroic verse shows the virility of an epic poet.
Iceland
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Poet
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and novelist, best known as a poet of humanity.
He was born on 21 January 1895, in Fagriskógur, Eyjafjördur, Iceland and he died on 1 March 1964, Akureyri Iceland.
Davíð Stefánsson came of a cultured yeoman family and was brought up with a love for his homeland, its literature, and its folklore. He frequently journeyed abroad but lived most of his life in the town of Akureyri, where he was a librarian (1925–52). He wrote a powerful novel, Sólon Islandus (1940), about a daydreaming 19th-century vagabond whose intellectual ambitions are smothered by society; a successful play, Gullna hliðið (1941; The Golden Gate, 1967, in Fire and Ice: Three Icelandic Plays); and other prose works, but they are overshadowed by his verse.
Stefánsson’s early poetry, including most of his folk themes and love lyrics, appeared in Svartar fjaðrir (1919; “Black Feathers”), Kvæði (1922; “Poems”), Kveðjur (1924; “Greetings”), and Ný Kvæði (1929; “New Poems”), which were combined and published as a collected volume in 1930. His later poetry—darkening in social satire, reformatory zeal against capitalism and organized religion, and despair over the war—was published as Í byggðum (1933; “Among Human Habitations”), Að norðan (1936; “From the North”), Ný kvæðabók (1947; “A New Book of Poems”), and the posthumous Síðustu ljóð (1966; “Last Poems”). His lyrics often have the delicacy of a cradle song; yet his heroic verse shows the virility of an epic poet.