Identifier: ibsen___00gossuoft (find matches)
Title: Ibsen
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928
Subjects: Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906
Publisher: London Hodder and Stoughton
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Ibsen acknowledged that that was exactly his
opinion of them, and what could follow for such
a disjointed friendship but anger and silence ?
The year 1869, which we now enter, is remark-
able in the career of Ibsen as being that in which
he travelled most, and appeared on the surface of
society in the greatest number of capacities. He
was enabled to do this by a considerable increase
in his pension. First of all, he was induced to
pay a visit of some months to Stockholm, being
seized with a sudden strong desire to study con-
ditions in Sweden, a country which he had
hitherto professed to dislike. He had a delight-
ful stay of two months, received from King Carl
the order of the Wasa, was feted at banquets,
renewed his acquaintance with Snoilsky, and was
treated everywhere with the highest distinction.
Ibsen and Bjornson were now beginning to be
recognized as the two great writers of Norway,
and their droll balance as the Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Sprat of letters was already becoming defined.
It was doubtless Bjornsons emphatic attacks on
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Facsimile of Ibsen's handwriting.
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1868—75 129
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Sweden that at this moment made Ibsen so
loving to the Swedes and so beloved.
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