Keywords
America Fever, immigrants, emigration, Danish-American literature
Abstract
Anton Kvist was born in 1878 in a small village in the northern part of Jutland in Denmark. In his home at Valsted there was a large group of ten siblings, and already as a six year old boy Anton had to work as a shepherd boy at the same time as he started to go to school. His father was a bricklayer, and so were a few of his brothers. At the age of sixteen he followed the family tradition and became a bricklayer's apprentice. In 1898 he came to Copenhagen to work as a bricklayer. Here in 1900 far away from his family and the familiar surroundings he wrote his first poem, dedicated to his mother.
Recommended Citation
Larsen, Birgit Flemming
(2006)
"Anton Kvist Danish-American Poet: His life and his works,"
The Bridge: Vol. 29:
No.
2, Article 39.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thebridge/vol29/iss2/39
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