Literature of Finland: An Outline

FOLK POETRY Song of a country girl Lyrical folk poems Epic folk poems Ritual poems and incantations The rune singers Stylistic features of the folk poems The collecting of folk poetry Problems of folk poetry Two traditions Non-perishable folklore LITERATURE DURING THE PERIOD OF SWEDISH DOMINATION Expansion from the West Medieval literature Mikael Agricola, Father of Finnish literature Era of learned poetry Literature of the Englightenment NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE A new situation Three great men Lönnrot and the "Kalevala" Aleksis Kivi The Age of Realism National "neo-romanticism" FROM 1900 TO THE SECOND WORLD WAR Poetry at the beginning of the century The Golden Age of Finnish prose Finland-Swedish Modernism Finnish poetry in the 1920s Reformers and virtuosos Paths of prose before and after the war Literature of the thirties Playwrights POST-WAR FINNISH LITERATURE The in-between generation Reform in poetry Post-war prose: objective narration and a reckoning with the past From social criticism to private emotions in poetry The movement of prose: the individual in a changing society The significance of literature Literature