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Rabbe Arnfinn Enckell

ラッベ・アルンフィン・エンケル

Rabbe Arnfinn Enckell

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1903-03-03 (Tammela)
Died
1974-06-17 (Helsinki) age 71
Nationality
Finnish
Languages
Swedish
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
Tammela → Helsinki

Career

Occupations
poet, writer
Active Years
1923-1974

Education

Svenska normallyceum
secondary school
Period: -1921
Year of Graduation: 1921
Country: Finland
University of Helsinki
art history
Country: Finland
studied
Art schools in France and Italy
art
Country: France/Italy
studied art

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Dikter

1923 poems

Impressionistic nature poems

changes in nature

Flöjtblåsarlycka

1925 poems

Vivid description of changes in nature

nature

Vårens cistern

1931 poems

Tonbrädet

1935 poems

Modernist poetry

modernism

Flyende spegel

1974 poems

Bibliography

  • Dikter (Poems, 1923)
  • Flöjtblåsarlyckan (Flautist's Luck, 1925)
  • Tillblivelse (Genesis, 1929)
  • Ljusdunkel (1930)
  • Ett porträtt (A Portrait, 1931)
  • Vårens cistern (The Cistern of Spring, 1931)
  • Landskapet med den dubbla skuggan (The Landscape with Double Shadows, 1933)
  • Tonbrädet (1935)
  • Herrar till natt och dag (1937)
  • Lutad över brunnen (Leaning over the Well, 1942)
  • Andedräkt av koppar (Breath of Copper, 1947)
  • Sett och återbördat (1950)
  • Essay om livets framfart (An Essay about the Ravages of Life, 1961)
  • Det är dags (1965)
  • Flyende spegel (1974)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
impressionisticmodernist
Recurring Motifs
changes in nature

Legacy

One of the stalwarts of the Swedo-Finnish poetic revival that began in the 1920s