Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2019
Abstract
Steen Steensen Blicher (1782-1848), the celebrated poet and short story writer of the Danish golden age, was an ardent Anglophile and admirer of Shakespeare, Scott, and, above all, Macpherson's Ossian. Blicher translated Macpherson's Ossian into Danish (1807-1809) and the poems proved a major influence on his own writing - he wrote a group of poems entitled "Ossianske Elegier" (Ossianic Elegies) and the impact can be traced in his acclaimed short stories too.
This paper shall examine Blicher's involvement with Ossian and the literary and artistic reception of this vastly influential literary product of the United Kingdom in Denmark in Blicher's time.