- Eino Leino
Infobox Person
name = Eino Leino
image_size = 248px
caption = Eino Leino in 1912
birth_date = birth date|1878|7|6|mf=y
birth_place =Paltamo ,Finland
death_date = Death date and age|1926|1|10|1878|7|6
death_place =Tuusula , FinlandEino Leino (
July 6 ,1878 ,Paltamo ,Finland -January 10 ,1926 ,Tuusula ,Finland ) was a Finnishpoet andjournalist and is considered one of the pioneers of Finnish poetry. His poems combine modern and Finnish folk elements. The style of much of his work is like theKalevala and folk songs. Nature, love, and despair are frequent themes in Leino's work. He is beloved and widely read in Finland today.Early life
Eino Leino was born as Armas Einar Leopold Lönnbohm in
Paltamo and was the seventh and youngest son in a family of ten children.Leino published his first poem at 12 and, by age 18, a collection of poems as well, "Maaliskuun lauluja."
Writing career
Early in his career Eino Leino was much loved and praised by the critics. He joined literary and newspaper circles and became a member of the Young Finnish circle. Among Leino's friends were the artist Pekka Halonen and Otto Manninen, who gained fame as a poet and translator. [ [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/eleino.htm Eino Leino ] at www.kirjasto.sci.fi]
After the
Finnish Civil War , Leino's idealistic faith for a national unity collapsed, and his influence as a journalist and polemicist weakened. He was granted a State writer's pension in 1918 at the age of forty. Although publishing prolifically, he had financial problems and his health deteriorated. "Life is always a struggle with eternal forces," Leino said in a letter in 1925 to his friendBertel Gripenberg . [ [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/eleino.htm Eino Leino ] at www.kirjasto.sci.fi]Leino published over 70 books of poems and stories. The most famous of these are the two poem collections [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13129 "Helkavirsiä"] (1903 and 1916), in which he extensively uses
Finnish mythology and folklore. In addition, Leino was the first person in Finland to translateDante 'sDivine Comedy into Finnish. [ [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/eleino.htm Eino Leino ] at www.kirjasto.sci.fi]Leino was married three times and had one daughter, Eija. He died in 1926 at age 47.
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* [http://www.aalto.vbg.ru/Unit3/contacts2.shtm Eino and Aino]
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