DR. BRANDES DEAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 89, 16 April 1927, Page 22

DR. BRANDES DEAD.

News comes by nun I of (he death of Dr. Georges Hrandes, the famous Danish critic, at the age of So. Dr. Branded had u world-wide reputation, and pcrhnp» influenced n larger public than any critic of his time. He was an acknowledged authority on Shakespeare, and his work on the plays was well known in England. The "Spectator" says of hinj.—"The cosmopolitanism of his enthusiasm wns a new thing in his native Denmark. The surprise which his points of view caused in Copenhagen might have led to no contention if lie had not also challenged his contemporaries in the .various spheres of polities, philosophy and religion. He was an uncompromising, not to say a contumacious, personality. Like most voluminous writers, he protluced uneven work, but his series of books known under the general heading of 'Main Streams of-Literature in the Nineteenth Century' are justly relc bfntcd For a time he went into voluntary exile in Germany, hut when he returned to Denmark to occupy a private chair, the University of Copenhagen, which had boycotted him. tacitly acknowledged his pre-eminence by leaving the Chair of Literature vacant. Brandes was called a critic, but he was rather a poet in the strict sense that he helped to make things—reputations, movement?. tSattyJMPC