02046cam a22002893u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000350011324500250014826400510017330000470022433600260027133700260029733800360032350000310035950800370039052011800042753400710160765300350167885600430171377987UtSlPG20260610134816.0mcr n260607r20261925utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7asv2iso639-1 4aPT1 aSödergran, Edith,d1892-192310aLandet som icke är 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-02-20  aTuula Temonen and Tapio Riikonen  aLandet som icke är by Edith Södergran is a posthumous collection of lyric poetry written in the early 20th century. The book traces an intense inner quest through illness, longing, and metaphysical desire toward a visionary elsewhere beyond ordinary life.

Across four sections, the poems shift from concentrated nature scenes and intimate confessions to mythic personae and stark spiritual visions. Early pieces evoke summer hills, roses, fevered nights, troubled love, and dialogues with Eros; a dramatic exchange between a girl and a nun weighs vengeance against mercy. The middle poems present the artist’s proud mask, dawn-calls to distant worlds, and declarations of captivity, fate, and iron will. Later, the voice returns to childhood trees, a graveyard vision, a homecoming to forests and water, and the moon’s cold dominion, with brief prayers that place all time in God’s hands. The collection resolves in the longing for “the land that is not,” where chains fall and desire is answered, and finally in a calm approach to Hades’ shore—death reframed as passage toward the long-sought country of rest. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cHelsingfors: Holger Schildts Förlag, 1925  aSwedish poetry -- 20th century40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77987