Rabbe Enckell
Rabbe Arnfinn Enckell was a Finnish writer and poet. Enckell is regarded as one of the stalwarts of the Swedo-Finnish poetic revival that began in the 1920s.
Enckell was born in Tammela, Kanta-Häme, to the journalist and agriculturist Karl Enckell and Vesta Charlotta Edgren. Enckell graduated from the secondary school Svenska normallyceum in 1921 and then studied art history at the University of Helsinki. He also studied art in France and Italy.
In 1923 he brought out his first poetry collection, entitled Dikter. It was a collection of impressionistic nature poems. The collection and its sequel, Flöjtblåsarlycka, which was published in 1925, were contained Enckell's vivid description of the changes in nature. Enckell was a modernist. For a year in 1928-29 he worked for the avant-garde journal Quosego. He then wrote a couple of semi-autobiographical novels, which included Ljusdunkel. He returned to poetry with the publication of The Cistern of Spring. He followed it with The Sounding Board. The modernist streak in his poetry prompted comparisons with T.S. Eliot. Enckell brought out another collection of poems, The Vault, which was published in 1937. He died in Helsinki, aged 71.
Works
- Dikter
- Flöjtblåsarlyckan
- Tillblivelse
- Ljusdunkel,
- Ett porträtt
- Vårens cistern
- Landskapet med den dubbla skuggan
- Tonbrädet
- Herrar till natt och dag.
- Lutad över brunnen
- Andedräkt av koppar,
- Sett och återbördat
- Essay om livets framfart
- Det är dags
- ''Flyende spegel''