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The painting "Vase with Flowers" by the Dutch artist Jan van Huysum was in a private collection just outside Christiania (now Oslo) when the Norwegian firebrand and poet Henrik Wergeland saw it early in 1840. The picure is 'metachronic': flowers from various seasons have been placed together in a combination that could not exist in reality. Exactly the same description can be applied to Wergeland's extraordinary tour-de-force, "Jan van Huysum's Flower Piece". The poem adopts a free attitude towards historical events and people, refers to fictitious works of art by real painters, and zigzags between verse and prose in a glorious rejection of conventional literary form. It is writing inspired by and derived from imagination alone, anchored only loosely in reality.Far from indicating a lack of research or ignorance on Wergeland's part, the poem represents the triumph of romanticism: the sovereign right of the work of art to rise above what is contingent. It is an ekphrasis and a meta-poem. Its main theme is the terrible price of beauty, the high existential cost of art. Plants that grow in ashes and blood, nourished by crumbling bones and watered by tears - these are what produce the loveliest of flowers. Wergeland, who died young after a troubled life, knew what he was talking about, and "Jan van Huysum's Flower Piece" is perhaps his confession. It is a principal work of Nordic romanticism.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Pełny tytuł: Jan van Huysum's Flower Piece
• Autor: Henrik Wergeland
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Liczba stron: 96
• EAN: 9781904559382
• ISBN: 9781904559382
• ID: 06496947
• Wydawca: Arcadia Books
• Waga: 340 g
• Wymiary: 222 × 143 × 20 mm
• Data wydania: 01. March 2009

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