{"id":33492,"date":"2012-12-02T20:14:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T19:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/?page_id=33492"},"modified":"2012-12-02T20:24:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T19:24:30","slug":"a-great-journalist-who-wanted-to-be-a-journalist-7-by-jens-kruuse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/?page_id=33492","title":{"rendered":"A great journalist who wanted to be a journalist 7. By Jens Kruuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Visiting Charles Dickens<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

On one further occasion a private letter, this time about a visit to England (where he stayed with Charles Dickens) was used by the press. He had been rash enough to write it to an alert editor, who amusingly wrote back: ‘You will have to put up with my using your letter for my paper; an editor goes about like a roaring lion, quaerens quem deboret (asking whom he can devour) , and you have put yourself in front of the open jaws.’<\/p>\n

It was a lively piece of reporting, covering among other things the first Handel festival in the Crystal Palace and life with Dickens at Gad’s Hill.
\nHans Christian Andersen was a great journalist, who would never be a journalist.
\nBut he would write, and indeed behave, like a journalist of the rarest sort.<\/p>\n

One of Denmark’s few really outstanding literary critics in the first half of the century put most clearly what has been said about the fairy-tale writer as a journalist. He was writing about the travel letters from Spain, and we will conclude this article by quoting him. He wrote:
\n“His style comes like sunshine, or like the crack of a whip!”<\/p>\n

Andersen’s very private diaries, written only for himself, are at present being published in Denmark. They make wonderful reading. But a professional journalist would hardly have squandered such rich reporting on himself alone.<\/p>\n

The author:<\/strong>\u00a0Jens Kruuse, born 1908, dr phil 1934. Assistant professor, Danish language, Paris 1934-38; assistant professor, comparative literary research, University of Arhus, 193942; assistant professor, dramaturgy, 1970-74. Journalist and literary critic of the Jutland daily Jyllands-Posten since 1942. Author of several books and essays on literary history.<\/p>\n

From\u00a0Hans Christian Andersen \u2013 Danish Journal 1976<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Visiting Charles Dickens On one further occasion a private letter, this time about a visit to England (where he stayed with Charles Dickens) was used by the press. He had been rash enough to write it to an alert editor, who amusingly wrote back: ‘You will have to put up with my using your letter … L\u00e6s mere A great journalist who wanted to be a journalist 7. By Jens Kruuse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-33492","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33518,"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33492\/revisions\/33518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}