Aside from poetry the romantic period was not fruitful. One nmy note the antiquarians Bask (1787-1832). Ilafn (1795-1801, 9.v.1. and Peter sen the lexicographer :11olbeeli (1783-1857) ; the botanist Schouw (1789-1852) : and the philosopher Sibbern (17S5-1872); suc ceeded by the brilliantly subtle Kierkegaard 11813-55). The period &units no si•nitleant nov elist or dramatist who was not primarily a poet, though writing perhaps like Andersen, in prose.
The thirty odd years that separate the birth of Paludan-Sliiller from that of Brandes are singu larly unproductive of Danish literary genius. The most prominent names are those of the poet Plong (1813-91). the novelist Goldschmidt (1819 87). and Herman Evald ( P321—). Polities ab sorlced popular interest after 1848. P‘omantieisin seemed bankrupt, but the Dance were slow in attuning themselves to the modern spirit of real ism. That they have done so at all, through polit ical distractions, national humiliation and dis memberment, is largely the work of Brandes, supplemented by the example of Bj6rnson and Ib sen. Of the new school the most distinguished are Drachmann (q.v.), Richardt (q.v.), and Chris tiansen (q.v.). One may record also the names of Bergsile (1835—, q.v.) , Jacobsen (1847-85), Skram (1847—), Edward Brandes (1847—), Bang (1S57—), Gjellerup (1857—), and Es mann (1860—), hut there seems little promise of greatness in any field of literature in the Den mark of this generation.
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