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Poems<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\"Ernst<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ernst Enno (8. VI \/ 27. V 1875 \u2013 7. III 1934) was a poet who also wrote short prose. He was one of the first writers in Estonia to be influenced by symbolism. He is considered to be the founder of the mystical poetic tradition. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enno was born in Rannu Parish in Tartu County and eventually moved with his family to R\u00f5ngu Parish. After studying at Tartu Hugo Treffner Gymnasium and at the Tartu School of Science, he continued his studies at Riga Polytechnical Institute in the Trade Department from 1896\u20131904. Enno worked as a journalist in Tartu, as an official in P\u00e4rnu, and as a secretary and teacher in Valga. From\u00a01919 until his death he was a school counselor in L\u00e4\u00e4ne County and lived in Haapsalu. In 1922\u20131927, he was also the editor of the children\u2019s journal Laste R\u00f5\u00f5m<\/em>. <\/span>
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Enno\u2019s first poems were published in 1896. He began writing literary texts more consistently at the start of the new century after being influenced by the work of Maurice Maeterlinck and Rainer Maria Rilke. In addition to fiction, philosophical and religious literature became increasingly important to him. He became interested in theosophy and Buddhism and translated, for example, the Taoist reflections by Laozi. \u00a0<\/span>
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Enno published four poetry collections: Uued luuletused<\/em> (\u2018New Poems\u2019, 1908), Hallid laulud<\/em> (\u2018Gray Songs\u2019, 1910), Valge \u00f6\u00f6<\/em> (\u2018White Night\u2019, 1920), Kadunud kodu<\/em> (\u2018Lost Home\u2019, 1920). His later works were mostly handwritten manuscripts and were only published after his death. The most extensive and multi-faceted edition of Enno\u2019s poems were compiled by Urmas T\u00f5nisson in R\u00e4ndaja \u00f5htulaul<\/em> (\u2018The Wanderer\u2019s Evening Song\u2019, 1998). This book marked a new rise of reception and a reinterpretation of Enno\u2019s work at the end of the twentieth century and beginning of the twenty-first century. \u00a0<\/span>
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Several texts from the first two poetry collections have remained among Enno\u2019s most well-known. The poem R\u00e4ndaja \u00f5htulaul<\/em> is among these, which was the title for the later collection. It poeticizes \u201cgray and endless roads,\u201d which has become one of the most famous lines in Estonian poetry. The paths in this poem are \u201cthe wanderer\u2019s households,\u201d while simultaneously acting as expressions of concrete and figurative landscapes. \u00a0<\/span>
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Despite its reputation, the reception of Enno\u2019s published work was controversial, partly because Friedebert Tuglas and Gustav Suits, leading figures of the most important literary group Noor-Eesti (\u2018Young Estonia\u2019), were critical towards it. There is reason to discuss the rise of neo-romantic literature in the case of both Enno and Noor-Eesti, but Enno is distinguished from other authors. Playing with philosophical backgrounds, he also had a pantheistic sense of nature and conducted mythical searches connected with personal experience, leading him to seek out the more obscure meanings behind his words and to pay less attention to refined external form. Enno\u2019s verse is often based on enchanting repetitions: instead of intellectual clarity, it foregrounds the melodic sound of language with a notion that some things can\u2019t be put into words. <\/span>
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Enno was also one of the most outstanding writers of children\u2019s poetry in Estonia; his work as editor of Laste R\u00f5\u00f5m<\/em> especially favored this. Ellen Niit later compiled the best of his work for children in the book \u00dcks rohutirts l\u00e4ks k\u00f5ndima<\/em> (\u2018A Grasshopper Went Walking\u2019). Enno\u2019s children\u2019s poetry does not generally have noticeable philosophical sub-texts; nonetheless, texts with different recipients are connected through games using the sound of language and reflections of nature. \u00a0<\/span>
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Enno\u2019s career as a prose writer was pretty much non-existent, but his autobiographical collection of short stories, Minu s\u00f5brad<\/em> (\u2018My Friends\u2019 (1910)) still received attention. Madis K\u00f5iv based his play Las olla p\u00e4\u00e4le<\/em> (\u2018Let It Be\u2019, directed with the title Ennola<\/em> in 2003) on this book. In twentieth-century literature, Minu s\u00f5brad<\/em> is, among other things, one of the most influential examples of how the South Estonian dialect (specifically the Tartu dialect) can be used in prose dialogue for something other than comical purposes. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Books in Estonian<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poems<\/em><\/strong>
Uued luuletused<\/strong>. Tartu: Noor-Eesti, 1909, 62 lk.
Hallid laulud<\/strong>. Tartu, 1910, 56 lk. \u00a0
Valge \u00f6\u00f6: uus kogu luuletusi 1916\/1918<\/strong>. Tallinn: Varrak, 1920, 70 lk.
Kadunud kodu: uus kogu luuletusi 1916\/1918<\/strong>. Tallinn: Varrak, 1920, 74 lk.
Valitud v\u00e4rsid<\/strong>. Koostanud Bernard Kangro. Tartu: Eesti Kirjanduse Selts, 1937, 270 lk. \u00a0
Kadunud kodu: luulevalimik<\/strong>. Koostanud Bernard Kangro. G\u00f6teborg: Orto, 1950, 80 lk.
Ernst Enno<\/strong>. Koostanud August Sang. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1964. [Sari \u2018V\u00e4ike luuleraamat\u2019.]
R\u00e4ndaja \u00f5htulaul<\/strong>. Koostanud Urmas T\u00f5nisson. Tartu: Ilmamaa, 1998, 328 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: 2008.] \u00a0
Igatsuse laulud: 1896\u20131934<\/strong>. Koostanud Karl Muru. Tallinn: T\u00e4nap\u00e4ev, 2007, 96 lk.<\/span>
Imelikku rada pikka<\/strong>. Koostanud ja j\u00e4rels\u00f5na: Lauri Sommer. Tallinn: T\u00e4nap\u00e4ev, 2020, 271 lk. [Valikkogu.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Short stories<\/em><\/strong>
Minu s\u00f5brad<\/strong>. Tartu, 1910, 112 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: 1973.]<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children\u2019s literature<\/em><\/strong>
Heinaaeg on ikka nii<\/strong>. Tartu: Loodus, 1937, 7 lk. [Luuletus. 2. tr\u00fckk: 1937.]
Tibuke<\/strong>. Tartu: Loodus, 1937, 11 lk. [Jutt.]
V\u00e4ike peremees<\/strong>. Tartu: Loodus, 1937, 11 lk. [Luuletus. J\u00e4rgnevad tr\u00fckid: 1943, 1991.]
Loomad<\/strong>. Tartu: Loodus, 1938, 15 lk. [Luule. J\u00e4rgnevad tr\u00fckid: 1938, 1943, 1992, 2012]
\u00dcks rohutirts l\u00e4ks k\u00f5ndima: luuletusi lastele<\/strong>. Koostanud Ellen Niit. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1957, 104 lk. [J\u00e4rgnevad tr\u00fckid: 1971, 1972, 2001, 2003.]
\u00dcks rohutirts l\u00e4ks k\u00f5ndima<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1983, 9 lk. [Luule. J\u00e4rgnevad tr\u00fckid: 1984, 1993.]
Juss oli v\u00e4ike peremees<\/strong>. Tallinn: T\u00e4nap\u00e4ev, 2001, 61 lk. [Luuletused. Sari \u201eMinu esimene raamat\u201c.]
Tibukese unen\u00e4gu<\/strong>. Tallinn: Piip ja Prillid, 2011, 14 lk. [Luule.]
Pimesikk<\/strong>. Koostanud Olivia Saar. Tallinn: TEA Kirjastus, 2013, 48 lk. [Luule.]<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Ernst Enno<\/em><\/strong>
Elin Toona, R\u00f5\u00f5m teeb taeva taga tuld. Ernst Enno<\/strong>. Tartu: Ilmamaa, 2000, 326 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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