From Beside the River: Poems
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers with Finnish who want to encounter poetry in the original
- Beginners studying Finnish literature or Nordic lyric poetry
- Quiet readers who enjoy short nature poems
- People who need public-domain texts as language-learning material
Not a good fit for
- Readers with no Finnish and no translation support
- Readers expecting strongly plotted or narrative works
- Beginners hoping for detailed annotations and an introduction
Reading tips
- Read through once for rhythm, then look up words and read closely poem by poem.
- Use a Finnish dictionary or bilingual tools and note recurring natural images.
- Read three to five poems at a time, leaving time for reflection and notes.
- Read alongside Nordic poetry of the same period to compare lyric traditions.
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
Erkki Kivijärvi (1882–1942) was a Finnish journalist, poet, writer and screenwriter, born Kaarle Erkki Kivijärvi in Oulu in 1882. He died in Helsinki in 1942 and is buried in Hietaniemi Cemetery. For many years he worked for Helsingin Sanomat, while pursuing literary writing alongside his journalistic career; three of his works are held in this collection. His poetry collections Matkamies (The Traveller) and Virran varrelta (By the River) draw frequently on images of journeys and rivers in a calm, reflective tone, while the short-story collection Väsynyt ja muita kertomuksia (The Weary One and Other Stories) turns to the circumstances and inner lives of ordinary people. He also wrote scripts for early Finnish silent films. Public information on his life is limited, and his work is chiefly studied for the themes of his poetry and short stories.
