Snow Drifts, I Sing

Selected Poems

• Author(s): Juhan Liiv,
• Publisher: Guernica
• Pages: 107
• ISBN_10: 1550718258
  ISBN_13: 9781550718256
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Foreign Language Study / Miscellaneous , Poetry / General ,

Description:... Juhan Liiv (1864-1913) has the same significance for Estonian culture that Federico García Lorca and T S Eliot have for modern culture created, respectively, in Spanish and English. Liiv's existential-patriotic and intimate-holistic lyrics have had an impact across Estonian society. Rebellion against all models and fashions existing in poetry unites Liiv with Walt Whitman: noble and proud, always in search of original expression, ever aspiring to resemble God in the inimitability of creation.