Contributions

  • Shaw, Clement B. - Contributor

Publication

1910 - Engberg-Holmberg, Chicago, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

9,750 words, Guess

Page Count

39 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCPT9845.D6 A37

Description

***Dödens Engel*** (the Angle of Death) is a Swedish poem, written by **Johan Olof Wallin** in the time of Cholera in Sweden 1834, but revised until his death 1839. The poem was read in his memorial at the meeting of the Swedish Academy of Science in Dec 20, 1839, and after that it was printed for the first time 1840 in ***Skaldestycken av Wallin och Tegnér***. Since that time there has been many different editions of this poem. The most famous edition is ***Dödens Engel***, illustrated by the Swedish painter **Carl Larsson** 1880, which has been used in many different translations such as in Danish, Germany, English, Spannish.

Subjects

Topics

CholeraSwedish poem

Places

People

Carl LarssonJohan Olof Wallin

Times

Other Editions

  • The angel of deathHardcoverEngberg-Holmberg1910-01-01

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