
The final volume of this intimate memoir draws directly from the poet’s own correspondence, offering a vivid, unfiltered glimpse into his later years. Rather than a conventional narrative, the editor weaves together letters that reveal his thoughts on travel, family, and the cultural debates of his time, allowing listeners to hear his voice as it resonated across continents.
In these pages the writer wrestles with a persistent homesickness that pulls him between Italy and his Danish roots, and he recounts the tensions of a literary feud that threatened his reputation. The loss of his beloved sister Sophia, struck down by a sudden fever, adds a poignant layer of personal sorrow, while his reflections on art, criticism, and the responsibilities of a public figure provide a thoughtful portrait of a man navigating both private grief and public scrutiny.
Language
de
Duration
~7 hours (457K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Thorsten Kontowski, Jens Nordmann and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)
Release date
2015-03-23
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1779–1850
A central voice in Denmark’s Romantic movement, this poet and playwright helped reshape Nordic literature in the early 1800s. His writing drew on myth, history, and national feeling, giving old legends a vivid new life.
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