Tómas Gudmundsson is the only Icelandic writer who survived as a mainstream poet of the many after Stefán frá Hvítadal and Davíd Stefánsson in the 1920s. Indeed, Tómas Gudmundsson became one of the most popular poets of the twentieth century in the new urban environment in Iceland. In his Ljódarabb (On Poetry, 1989) Sveinn Skorri Höskuldsson says, "Stundum finnst mér ad Tómas Gudmundsson hafi verid sídasta skáld rómantíkurinnar á Íslandi. Þó er slík fullyrding audvitad á skjön vid sannleikann. Hvorki var hann eingetinn sónur rómantíkur né hinn sídasti" (I sometimes feel that Tómas Gudmundsson was the last Romantic poet in Iceland, even if...