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Definition of Ibsen
1. Noun. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
Generic synonyms: Dramatist, Playwright, Poet
Derivative terms: Ibsenian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ibsen
Literary usage of Ibsen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1906)
"Ibsen THE PLAYWRIGHT IN Two PARTS—PART II. HE more poetic of Ibsen's plays in prose
... Ibsen is mystic, no doubt, but on occasion he can be misty also. ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"When Ibsen was fourteen they moved back into Skien, where the boy in the mean
... This same year Ibsen left Grimstad for Christiania with the intention of ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1906)
"The Works of Henrik Ibsen. Eleven vols. Revised and edited by William Archer.
... The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen. Edited by Mary Morison. ..."
4. Friday Nights: Literary Criticisms and Appreciations by Edward Garnett (1922)
""What is really wanted is a revolution of the spirit of man" wrote Ibsen to
Brandes in ... It is because Ibsen is so dissatisfied with average human nature, ..."
5. European Dramatists by Archibald Henderson (1913)
"HENRIK Ibsen THE EVOLUTION OF His MIND AND ART From the standpoint of present-day
America, with its gospel of the strenuous life, its tendency to hero- ..."
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