Lepidopterology by Jesper Svenbro | Resources

Lepidopterology For Further Reading

Fulton, Robin, ed. and trans., Five Swedish Poets, Norvik Press, 1998.

In this compelling volume, the respected critic and translator Robin Fulton provides selections from the contemporary Swedish poets Kjell Espmark, Lennart Sjogren, Staffan Soderblom, Werner Aspenstrom, and Eva Strom, including a brief critical introduction to each.

Moffett, Judith, ed. and trans., The North! To the North!: Five Swedish Poets of the Nineteenth Century, Southern Illinois University Press, 2001.

This collection of nineteenth-century Swedish poets provides useful background information about Svenbro and the post-World War II poetry scene in Sweden.

Smith, William Jay, and Leif Sjöberg, eds., The Forest of Childhood: Poems from Sweden, New Rivers Press, 1996.

Smith and Sjöberg's collection of contemporary Swedish poems helps place Svenbro in his literary context.

Warme, Lars G., ed., A History of Swedish Literature, University of Nebraska Press, 1996.

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