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100 1 _aSödergran, Edith,
_d1892-1923
245 1 0 _aLandet som icke är
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-20
508 _aTuula Temonen and Tapio Riikonen
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHelsingfors: Holger Schildts Förlag, 1925
653 _aSwedish poetry -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77987
999 _c118707
_d118707