Selected Icelandic Poetry of the 20th Century

Author: (Ice) Steinar
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Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Iceland is a country with a rich cultural tradition. Geographically, it is a small nation, but its literature, especially poetry, is highly developed. As early as ancient times, it produced the famous Northern European heroic epic "Edda." This anthology includes works by over 230 poems from 37 Icelandic poets of the 20th century. Among them are modernist poetry masters and challengers of traditional poetry, such as Steinar, as well as post-war born postmodern "atomic poets," and young poets born in the 1950s and 1960s, collectively representing the landscape of Icelandic poetry over the past half-century.
This anthology includes works by over 230 poems from 37 Icelandic poets of the 20th century. Among them are modernist poetry masters and challengers of traditional poetry, such as Steinar, as well as post-war born postmodern "atomic poets," and young poets born in the 1950s and 1960s, collectively representing the landscape of Icelandic poetry over the past half-century.