Lindegren, Erik

Lindegren, Erik

▪ Swedish poet
born Aug. 5, 1910, Luleå, Swed.
died May 31, 1968, Stockholm

      Swedish modernist poet who made a major contribution to the development of a new Swedish poetry in the 1940s.

      Lindegren attended the University of Stockholm and established himself as a literary reviewer for a number of leading newspapers and magazines. The appearance of Lindegren's second volume of poetry, Mannen utan väg (1942; The Man Without a Way), marked the beginning of the poetry of the '40s. Using unconventional imagery and syntax, the poetry in this volume can best be understood in terms of its visions of the stupidities and horrors of the contemporary human scene. Lindegren's two later volumes of poetry, Sviter (1947; “Suites”) and Vinteroffer (1954; “Winter Sacrifice”), continue to reveal the strength of his commitment to modernism, though they are more lyrical.

      In 1947 Lindegren and Karl Vennberg (Vennberg, Karl) (also a modernist poet) edited the anthology 40-talslyrik (“Poetry of the 1940s”), including verse from more than a score of young poets whose work reflected the ideas and moods of the decade. Lindegren made notable translations of T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the poetry of the French writers Saint-John Perse, Paul Éluard, and Paul Valéry, and the prose of William Faulkner and Graham Greene. He also translated the librettos of several operas and, during the last 10 years of his life, himself wrote texts for performance.

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