Kurimus : Runoja
by Jylhä, Yrjö
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Title:
Kurimus : Runoja
Original Publication:
Helsinki: Otava, 1928.
Credits:
Tuula Temonen
Summary:
Kurimus : Runoja by Yrjö Jylhä is a collection of lyric poems written in the late 1920s. The book explores inner turmoil, eros and guilt, death and fate, and the tension between artistic ideals and everyday reality, using folk motifs, biblical and mythic figures, and flashes of modern urban life to probe moral conflict and longing. The poems unfold in four...