Excerpt from Peer Gynt, Vol. 4: A Dramatic Poem<br><br>Henrik ibsen was in his thirty-seventh or thirty-eighth year when he wrote Peer Gynl, published in Copenhagen in 1867. He had left Norway in the spring of 1864, having by that time produced his historical and legendary tragedies in prose, and his fascinating, if somewhat juvenile, Love's Conway, written in rhymed decasyllables. Proceeding to Rome, he there (or, more precisely, at Ariccia, under the Alban Mount) wrote the satiric tragedy, Brand, which at once made him famous throughout Scandinavia. Brand was published in 1866, while the poet, who had now wandered still further southward, to Ischia and Sorrento, was writing Peer Gynt. The production of two such poems within the space of two consecutive years is surely unique in the history of letters. It is unique, at any rate, in Ibsen's record, for he is, as a rule, an extremely deliberate worker.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.