{"id":278,"date":"2024-04-03T23:39:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/dresen\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:10:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:10:29","slug":"dresen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/d\/dresen\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilda Dresen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPoems<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\"Hilda<\/span><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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Hilda Dresen (1896-1981) was a\u00a0<\/span><\/span>radio-telegraphist who learnt Esperanto in 1913. Dresen collaborated in <\/span>Literatura Mondo, La Nica Literatura Revuo, Norda Prismo <\/em>(1955-72), <\/span>Monda Kulturo, Heroldo de Esperanto, La Praktiko<\/em> [Practice], <\/span>La Nova Epoko<\/em> [The New Era], <\/span>La Suda Stelo, Fonto<\/em> and other periodicals. She translated a great deal of poetry from the Estonian, Russian, Ukrainian and German.\u00a0<\/span>A number of translations for <\/span>Estona Antologio: I <\/strong><\/em>[Estonian Anth.: I] (1932) were done with her sister, Helmi (1892-1941), who was murdered by the Nazis, having become Mayoress of Tallinn (DL<\/em>, p. 398). Helmi also wrote poetry.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAlthough Hilda Dresen dedicated herself mainly to translation, eleven of her original poems were selected for Dekdu Poetoj<\/em> [Eleven Poets] (1934). Her own collection of poetry, Norda Naturo <\/em>[Northern Nature], appeared in 1967.\u00a0<\/span>Dresen is above all a poet of nature contemplated through \u2019the innocent eyes of a child\u2019. Georgi Mihalkov (q.v.) comments (<\/span>BE<\/em>, pp. 27, 24-5) that her poems seem to radiate the silence and tranquillity of the North. \u2019Dresen paints the concrete details that characterize northern nature with delicacy and emotion. \u2026 the silver birch, the bird cherry, the northern lakes.\u2019<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMihalkov also considers Dresen to be the first Esperanto poetess to enrich the literature \u2019with typically female tones, motifs, emotions\u2019 (BE<\/em>, pp. 31-4)<\/em>. He remarks that, although Dresen\u2019s themes are not very varied or her \u2019spectrum of senses\u2019 very wide, she nevertheless succeeds in displaying the lyricalness and tender emotion of the female spirit. On the other hand, Dresen\u2019s poetry is ruled by harmony and the outside world. She \u2019avoids meditation on the thoughts and feelings of the female soul\u2019, in contrast to Marjorie Boulton (q.v.) and Eli Urbanov\u00e1 (q.v.).\u00a0<\/span>Tazio Carlevaro (q.v.) classifies Dresen\u2019s work as being on the periphery of influence from the Budapest School of writers (cf. Kalocsay, Baghy). He considers her the first outstanding female poet in Esperanto. Dresen\u2019s themes principally concern nature and emotional movements, which she develops with a somewhat melancholy, although never sentimental, tone (<\/span>EeP<\/em>, p. 148).\u00a0<\/span>K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Kalocsay (q.v.) also commented on the melancholy in Dresen\u2019s poetry, as did Lajos T\u00e1rkony (q.v.), although William Auld (q.v.) (<\/span>PkS<\/em>, p. 49) does not share the same opinion, finding her \u2019positive, courageous, diligent\u2019. Auld picks out her poem \u2019Vento\u2019 [Wind] as exemplifying her philosophy of life. \u2019\u2026 how unconventional (<\/span>ne\u015dablona<\/em>) Hilda\u2019s mind was to the end\u2019, he wrote (<\/span>PkS<\/em>, p. 48).<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tDresen has translated to Esperanto all important Estonian poets.\u00a0Auld calculates (PkS<\/em>, p. 47) some 122 poems from Estonian.\u00a0Of particular note is her trans. (1975) of pts of the Estonian national epic poem\u00a0Kalevipoeg<\/em>\u00a0(1856\/61, by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald), and poetry of Marie Under. Under\u2019s\u00a0Elektitaj Versa\u0135oj<\/em>\u00a0[Sel. Poems] came out in 1929, and her\u00a0Sonetoj<\/em>\u00a01917 [Sonnets 1917] was published after Dresen\u2019s death in 1988, although she had done the work in the 1930s; Under\u2019s poems \u2019\u201cSina \u00fctled\u201c I\u2019 as \u2019Vi Diras: I\u2019, rpt in\u00a0NEK<\/em>\u00a0(1991). William Auld (PkS<\/em>, p. 48) praises in particular Dresen\u2019s translation of Juhan (Johannes) Liiv\u2019s lyrical poetry in\u00a0Al Abelujo \u011ci Flugas<\/em>\u00a0[To a Beehive It Flies] (1980).\u00a0<\/span>Dresen\u2019s other main works on translation from Estonian are:\u00a0<\/span>Horizontoj\u00a0<\/em>[Horizons] (1931, poetry by the modern revolutionary poet Johannes Barbarus.\u00a0<\/span>Estonaj Kantoj<\/em>\u00a0[Estonian songs] (collaborator, 1931).\u00a0<\/span>Estona Antologio: I\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>[Estonian Anth.: I] (ed., trans. With 16 others, 1932).\u00a0<\/span>\u015cippereo<\/em>\u00a0[Shipwreck] (1968, co-trans with H. Tulve, short story and poems by Juhan Smuul). J. Talvet (ed.):\u00a0<\/span>Estona Soveto Poezio\u00a0<\/em>[Estonian Soviet Poetry] (1977).\u00a0<\/span>Lumo de Orienta E\u016dropo<\/em>\u00a0[Light of Eastern Europe] (1978, with J. Ojalo and H. Saha, the poem\u00a0<\/span>Ida-Euroopa valgus<\/em>\u00a0by Vladimir Beekmann. \u2019Orflava Kanto\u2019 (rpt in\u00a0<\/span>BLK<\/em>\u00a01979, \u2019Kuldkollane laul\u2019 by Henrik Visnapuu).\u00a0<\/span>Ventolume<\/em>\u00a0[By Wind-light] (1986, trans. With S. K\u00e4rner and J. Ojalo of poems\u00a0<\/span>Valik luuletusi<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Tuule valgel<\/em>\u00a0by Debora Vaarandi).\u00a0<\/span>Nur Erik-floreto<\/em>\u00a0[Just a Little Heather Flower] (2001, coll. of poems by Enn Uibo).<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tDresen collaborated in the production of <\/span>Svisa Antologio<\/em> [Swiss Anth.] (1939) and <\/span>Versoj Elektitaj <\/em>[Sel. Verse] (1965) by Russian Sergej A. Esenin.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Dresen: in L. Totsche [T\u00e1rkony]: <\/span>De Pa\u011do al Pa\u011do: Literaturaj Profiloj<\/em> [From Page to Page: Lit. Profiles] (1932, rpt 1976). \u00c1. Abonyi-Nagy: \u2019Norde Falis Stelo\u2026 Forpasis Hilda Dresen\u2019 [A Star Has Fallen in the North\u2026 H.D. Has Passed Away] (1981). W. Auld: \u2019Ni Ne Trovos \u015cian Anstata\u016danton (Nekrologo pri Hilda Dresen, 1896-1981)\u2019 [We Won\u2019t Find Her Replacement (Obituary for H.D.)] (1997). G. Mihalkov: \u2019La Naturo en Esperanto-poezio\u2019 [Nature in Eo Poetry] (1987) and \u2019La Poezia Mondo de Esperanto-Poetinoj\u2019 [The Poetic World of Female Eo Poets] (1987). B. Ragnarsson: \u2019Hilda Dresen Rimarkis la Nerimarkatan\u2019 [H.D. Noticed the Unnoticed] (2006, rpt 2007.)<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tSource: Geoffrey Sutton. <\/span>The Third Period 1931-1951<\/em>. \u2013\u00a0<\/span>Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto, 1887-2007. New York: Mondial, 2008,\u00a0pp 193-195.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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