A Hundred Years of an Unvanquished Canon: F. R. Kreutzwald’s Kalevipoeg in Estonian Literary Histories and School Text-Books
A Hundred Years of an Unvanquished Canon: F. R. Kreutzwald’s Kalevipoeg in Estonian Literary Histories and School Text-Books

Summary/Abstract: A hundred years would be a small segment of time for any major tradition of world literature, but in the case of Estonian literature it means almost its entire history. Literature created in the vernacular Estonian language by the Estonians themselves does not go back much farther than the start of the 19th century, when Kristian Jaak Peterson (1901–1922), inspired by ancient Greek poetry, but also by some German authors (perhaps F. G. Klopstock, in the first place), wrote first Estonian poems which have aesthetical value.

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