Vilhelm Ekelund (October 14, 1880 – September 3, 1949) was a Swedish poet.

Career

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and an increasing conviction that poetry was an unsatisfactory, vain medium, he turned away from poems and devoted himself to essays and aphoristic prose in a highly personal and sometimes near impenetrable style.

Works

* ''Melodier i skymning'' ('Melodies at Dusk', 1902) * ''Havets stjärna'' ('Star of the Sea', 1906) * ''Antikt ideal'' ('The Ancient Ideal', 1909) * ''Böcker och vandringar'' ('Books and Wanderings', 1910) * ''På havsstranden'' ('On the Sea Shore', 1922)

Notes

References

* Lilja Norrlind, Eva, ''Studier i svensk fri vers : den fria versen hos Vilhelm Ekelund och Edith Södergran'' (""Studies in Swedish free verse; the free metrics of Vilhelm Ekelund and Edith Södergran", Göteborg 1981) * Werin, Algot, ''Vilhelm Ekelund I-II'' (Lund 1960-61)

External links

* 1880 births 1949 deaths Swedish poets 20th-century Swedish poets {{Sweden-writer-stub