''The Wild Choir'' ( no, Det vilde Kor) is a poetry collection by Nobel laureate in literature

Knut Hamsun Knut Hamsun (4 August 1859 – 19 February 1952) was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, perspective a ...

. It was published in 1904 and is his only poetry collection. The collection contains existentialist, erotic and political poems. One of the best known poems from the collection is "Letter to Byron in the Great Beyond" (''Himmelbrev til Byron''), addressed to the late English poet

Lord Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and Peerage of the United Kingdom, peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and h ...

, one of Hamsun's role models. It also includes the poem "In a hundred years, all is forgotten" (''Om hundrede år er allting glemt''). The collection has been set to music by different composers and musicians, including the album ''Bjørnstad/Paus/Hamsun'' (1982) by

Ole Paus Ole Paus (born 9 February 1947; full name ''Ole Christian Paus'') is a Norwegian singer, songwriter, poet and author, who is widely regarded as the foremost troubadour of the contemporary Norwegian ballad tradition ( no, visebølgen). During th ...

and

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, the album ''

Det Vilde Kor ''The Wild Choir'' ( no, Det vilde Kor) is a poetry collection by Nobel laureate in literature Knut Hamsun. It was published in 1904 and is his only poetry collection. The collection contains existentialist, erotic and political poems. One of the b ...

'' (2007) by

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, and the operatic song cycle ''Det vilde Kor'' (2009) by

Marcus Paus Marcus Nicolay Paus (; born 14 October 1979) is a Norwegian composer and one of the most performed contemporary Scandinavian composers. As a classical contemporary composer he is noted as a representative of a reorientation toward tradition, tonal ...

Bibliography

, ''Det vilde kor og andre dikt'',

Gyldendal Norsk Forlag Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS, commonly referred to as Gyldendal N.F. and in Norway often only as Gyldendal, is one of the largest Norwegian publishing houses. It was founded in 1925 after buying rights to publications from the Danish publishing ho ...

, 1999

References

{{Italic title Works by Knut Hamsun Poetry collections 1904 poetry books