Wergeland
Britishnoun
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His weighty trilogy about TV presenter Jonas Wergeland – The Seducer, The Conqueror and The Discoverer – are highly recommended.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2011
Wergeland, Welhaven, Munch, and Moe among the former, Björnson, Ibsen, Kjelland, and Lie among the latter, were, as far as Englishmen were concerned, "to fortune and to fame unknown."
From The Visionary Pictures From Nordland by Jessie Muir
In Wergeland we have a typical example of the effects of excess of fancy in a violently productive but essential uncritical nature.
From Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse
The students at the university especially took an active part under the leadership of that champion of liberty, the poet Henrik Wergeland, who died in 1845.
From Norwegian Life by Ethlyn T. Clough
The flesh so delicious was chopped up to farce-meat, And later by Wergeland found for a farce meet, And gayly 't was swallowed, And all the bones hollowed And strown.
From Poems and Songs by Arthur Hubbell Palmer
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