The Heritage of the Kurts (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Heritage of the KurtsAt the grammar school of Molde, to which he was sent in his eleventh year, bjornson was an active, tiresome, and industrious boy, in whom, about four years later, a feeling for literature was suddenly awakened by the reading of Wergeland's poem, T/ze Engtz'sfi Pilot. At seventeen he was sent to a high school at Christiania, where the poet A. O. Vinje was one of his school-fellows, and for two years his close daily companion. The theories which this singular young man already entertained with regard to the freshening and Norsking of the Danish language as employed by Norwegian writers, were not without their direct in¿uence On Bjornson's after-practice, although he never pushed these views to Vinje's extreme. In 1852 Bjornson entered the University of Christiania, Before this, however, he had written, and had submitted to the management of the metro politan theatre, a drama called Va/borg, it was accepted, and in consequence the author was admitted free to the performances. By this unconscious education his taste be came so far refined, that when his own piece came up for rehearsal he was disgusted with its imperfections, and with drew it. This, and two other dramas Of his early student years, have never been printed. In 1854 he began to support himself by journalism in the capital. His early career was one of struggle, not only against privation and disappointment, but against a paralysing conviction of his own dulness and want of talent. At length, in his twenty fourth year, having attended a student celebration at Upsala in Sweden, in the capacity of a newspaper correspondent.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.