The year after Christian Winther's death, Danish critic and influential thinker Georg Brandes summed up Winther's collected works in this manner: "Vore Faedre elskede dem, og de elskes af os. Vore Faedre saa dem blive til, og de leve for os. Det er Stjerner, hvis Guld ingen Rust har angrebet og hvis Ild ikke er blevet slukt" (Our fathers loved them, and they are loved by us. Our fathers saw them created, and they live for us. They are stars, whose gold no rust has attacked and whose fire has not been put out). This eulogizing tone suggests that Winther's contemporaries appreciated the landscapes Winther created in which earthly and heavenly love are united through verse. To readers of Danish poetry, Winther is best known for his major literary achievement, the epic Hjortens Flugt (The Flight of the Stag, 1855), generally considered the last great work of Danish Romanticism...