Kan man skriva pastoral poesi så nära Nordpolen? : Arkadiska skildringar i isländska dikter från artonhundratalet

• Main Author: Egilsson, Sveinn Yngvi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Swedish
• Published: University of Iceland 2017
• Subjects: Steingrímur Thorsteinsson; Icelandic poetry; Pastoral; northern idyll; Biedermeier; Languages and Literature; Språk och litteratur; Nordpolen; Traveller; Nordpol*
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-336116

The article focuses on representations of the Pastoral as a landscape aesthetic and literary convention in 19th century Icelandic poetry. Although originating in Classical Greece and Rome, and more attuned to warmer climes, the Pastoral has found its way to the far North. It enters Icelandic poetry...