The Kalevala: Or, Poems of the Kaleva District by Francis Peabody Magoun Jr., Elias Lönnrot

The Kalevala: Or, Poems of the Kaleva District

Francis Peabody Magoun Jr., Elias Lönnrot

440 pages first pub 1849 (editions)

fiction classics poetry adventurous challenging slow-paced
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The national folk epic of Finland is here presented in an English translation that is both scholarly and eminently readable. To avoid the imprecision and metrical monotony of earlier verse translations, Francis Magoun has used prose, printed line ...

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