Jeppe Aakjær

Jeppe Aakjær (10 September 1866 in Skive, Jutland - 22 April 1930 in Jenle) was a Danish poet and novelist, a disciple of Georg Brandes and Steen Steensen Blicher, with which Danish regional poetry and the use of Danish as a modern language begins. As a poet he is considered, along with Johanes Jensen, the singer of Jutland.

Of humble origins, he fought against social injustices, especially those suffered by peasants, and for this reason he became an exponent of peasant literature in Denmark. His first wife was also the writer Marie Bregendahl, known for her regionalist literature.

Work

The narrative work of Aakjær constitutes an acrid testimony of rural life highlighting the misery of the lower classes, where he advocates for political and social reforms. His best-known novel is Vredens Born ( The Children of Wrath , 1904), in which she describes the life of oppression and misery in which servants and servants live. on rural farms; Other works include: Hvor Bonder bor (Where the Peasants Live, 1908), Arbejdets Glaede (The Joy of Work, 1914), Bondens Søn (The peasant's son,1899), (The legend of a servant,1904), (Under the evening star), Where there are forces that germinate, (1916).

His poetic work, fresh and sincere, produced emotional admiration in the intellectual circles of Copenhagen: Fri Felt (Open Field, 1905), (Song of the Reaper, 1906), Rugens Sange (Songs of Rye, 1906) and Vejr og Vind og Folksind (Air, wind and popular humor, 1921).