{"id":278,"date":"2024-04-03T23:39:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/dresen\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T12:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T09:33:08","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\n\n\n

Hilda Dresen (11. V 1896 \u2013 5. II 1981) was a translator to and a poet in Esperanto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was trained and worked as a radio-telegraphist who learnt Esperanto in 1913. Dresen collaborated in Literatura Mondo, La Nica Literatura Revuo, Norda Prismo<\/em>, Monda Kulturo, Heroldo de Esperanto, La Praktiko<\/em>, La Nova Epoko<\/em>, La Suda Stelo, Fonto<\/em>and other periodicals. A number of translations for Estona Antologio: I<\/em> <\/strong>(\u2018Estonian Anthology: I\u2019, 1932) were done with her sister, Helmi (1892-1941), who was murdered by the Nazis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Hilda Dresen dedicated herself mainly to translation, eleven of her original poems were selected for Dekdu Poetoj<\/em> (\u2018Eleven Poets\u2019, 1934). Her own collection of poetry, Norda Naturo <\/em>(<\/em>\u2018Northern Nature\u2019), appeared in 1967. Dresen is above all a poet of nature contemplated through \u2019the innocent eyes of a child\u2019. Georgi Mihalkov comments 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 Mihalkov also considers Dresen to be the first Esperanto poetess to enrich the literature \u2019with typically female tones, motifs, emotions\u2019. 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. Tazio Carlevaro 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. K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Kalocsay also commented on the melancholy in Dresen\u2019s poetry, as did Lajos T\u00e1rkony, although William Auld does not share the same opinion, finding her \u2019positive, courageous, diligent\u2019. Auld picks out her poem Vento <\/em>(\u2018Wind\u2019) as exemplifying her philosophy of life. \u2019\u2026 how unconventional Hilda\u2019s mind was to the end\u2019, he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dresen has translated to Esperanto some 122 poems from Estonian \u2013 parts of Kalevipoeg<\/a><\/em>, Marie Under<\/a>, Juhan Liiv<\/a>, Johannes Barbarus<\/a>, Juhan Smuul<\/a>, Vladimir Beekman<\/a>, Henrik Visnapuu<\/a>, Debora Vaarandi<\/a>, Enn Uibot etc. Dresen translated poetry to Esperanto also from Russian, Ukrainian and German.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\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>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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