Fiskerne

work by Ewald

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  • Johannes Ewald, engraving by Johan Frederik Clemens, 1779.
    In Johannes Ewald

    Of his dramatic works, only Fiskerne (1779; “The Fishermen”), an operetta, is still performed. His greatest work in prose is his posthumously published memoirs, in which lyrically pathetic chapters about his lost Arendse intermingle with humorous passages. He is known best as a lyric poet, especially for his great personal…

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