Jan van Huysums Blomsterstykke: En Buket by Henrik Arnold Wergeland
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"Jan van Huysums Blomsterstykke: En Buket" by Henrik Arnold Wergeland is a 64-page poem published in 1840. Written as an ekphrasis in dialogue with Dutch painter Jan van Huysum's flower painting, it tells the fictional story of Adrian, a recluse who lost his family in the Netherlands' war of independence. When the painter takes Adrian's beloved flowers for a bouquet, tragedy unfolds. Wergeland weaves verse and prose to explore profound questions about
art, life, and memory, creating what scholars call a masterwork of Romanticism. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Wergeland, Henrik Arnold, 1808-1845 |
|---|---|
| Title | Jan van Huysums Blomsterstykke: En Buket |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_Huysums_Blomsterstykke |
| Credits | Produced by Distributed Proofreaders Europe, dp.rastko.net Project by Riikka Talonpoika and Tapio Riikonen |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | Norwegian |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Huysum, Jan van, 1682-1749 -- Poetry |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 11293 |
| Release Date | Feb 1, 2004 |
| Last Update | Oct 28, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 251 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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