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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Learners with basic Finnish who want to reinforce the language through poetry
- Readers interested in Nordic poetry and literature in minority languages
- Those who need public-domain poetry texts for translation practice or comparative reading
- Poetry lovers who enjoy short forms and are willing to read slowly and closely
Not a good fit for
- Readers with no Finnish who hope to read Chinese translations of the poems
- Readers expecting detailed author biography and annotations
- Readers who prefer long narrative or prose works
Reading tips
- Read two or three short poems slowly each day: read them aloud first, then work on comprehension, and feel the sounds and rhythms of Finnish.
- Keep a Finnish dictionary at hand and mark recurring images and keywords.
- Read alongside chapters on late-nineteenth-century poetry in a history of Finnish literature.
- Try translating favorite short poems into Chinese and compare the rhythm of the original with the translation.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Kössi Kaatra (1882–1928), born Gustaf Adolf Lindström, was a Finnish working-class poet, journalist and theatre director, and a representative figure of early Finnish labour literature. Writing in Finnish, he produced poems and songs drawn largely from the workers' movement, strikes and class struggle, in a plain and rousing style; his long poem Red and White: A Chronicle of the Finnish Civil War treats the civil war from a class perspective, while workers' songs such as Songs of the Great Strike were widely sung. During the general strike of 1905 he read the "Red Declaration" from the balcony of Tampere City Hall. After the civil war's defeat he fled to Sweden and died in Huddinge. Nine of his works are held here; public information is limited, but his writing is clearly bound up with the Finnish labour movement.
