Siuru

Estonian literary group

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In Estonian literature
…Revolution of 1917 emerged the Siuru group (named after a bird in Finno-Ugrian mythology). These Neoromantic poets reacted against Suits’s emphasis on formalism. Their emotional intensity was well-illustrated by Henrik Visnapuu, who, with Marie Under, developed the lyrical potential of Estonian to the full. By the 1930s a renewal of…
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