Bøger af Jesper Svenbro

First published in French in 1988, this extraordinary book traces the meaning and function of reading from its very beginnings in Greek oral culture through the development of silent reading. One of the most haunting early examples of Greek...

A selection of Swedish poet Jesper Svenbro's poems, drawn from his seven previous volumes and translated into English. Svenbro calls upon the myths of the Greeks, journeys in Lapland, the poetry of Sappho and T.S. Eliot, the joys of childhood and the evocations of nature and of art.