Abstract

The article presents the patriotic project of Vilhem Andersen, one of George Brandes’s opponents and critics of the modern breakthrough. Andersen’s main medium were literary biographies, which he had the ambition to use to influence his contemporaries, promoting romantic national literature and identifying the national characteristics of the Danes. The reflections focus on the most important and most popular biography of the author entitled Poul Møller. Hans Liv og Skrifter (1894), which is the most emphatic manifestation of Andersen’s mission.

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