Brand A Dramatic Poem in Five Acts Author:Henrik Ibsen General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1894 Original Publisher: Heinemann Subjects: Drama / General Drama / American Drama / Anthologies Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / European / Scandinavian Literary Criticism / Drama Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the or... more »iginal. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: NOTES P. 10. -- 'Two thoughts,'etc. With the whole of this passage compare the poem Lyara'd, where he contrasts with his schoolboy dread of the dark the 'light-horror' of his maturity. 'Now it is the trolls of day, now it is the noise of life, that scatter all the chill terrors into my breast.' The idea fascinated Ibsen. His poem first appeared in the cycle, / Billedgcdltritt (111. NyhedMad, 1859, No. 38); in 1863 he republished it, much altered (///. Nyheda- blad, 1863, No. 6). It was the only poem of the cycle admitted into the D'ujte. P. 17. -- My JEgir's courser. yEgir, in the Eddas, is a cloud- or water-giant. Waves are called ' jgir's daughters' (Egiss daettr) in a fragment quoted in Corp. Poet. Bar. ii. 54. The name Egir itself is probably derived from water (Goth, ahva), and thus cognate with ey, 'island.' Cf. E. H. Meyer, Gertnanische Mytholoijie, p. 150. P. 26. -- ' It is not dogmas I defend,' etc. Cf. the following utterance quoted by Brandes from a letter of Ibsen's to him: The State is rooted in time, it will culminate in time. Greater things than it will fall. Every form of religion will fall. Neither moral notions nor Art forms have an eternity before them. How many of them are we really bound tocling to? Who will guarantee that 2+2 in Jupiter will not make 5 ?' -- Moderne Oeinter, p. 436. P. 21. -- 'The new brood.' A vivid picture of the ways of that more stringent Evangel...« less