Songs of March
work by Leino
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- In Eino Leino
…collection of poems, Maaliskuun lauluja (1896, “Songs of March”), Leino’s mood was gay and his style free and melodic; he was influenced by his compatriot J.L. Runeberg, the German poet Heinrich Heine, and Finnish folk songs. But gradually his mood darkened, and he turned to poems of confession and solitude,…
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