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Anton Kvist Danish-American Poet: His Life And His Works, Birgit Flemming Larsen
Anton Kvist Danish-American Poet: His Life And His Works, Birgit Flemming Larsen
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Anton Kvist was born in 1878 in a small village in the northern part of Jutland in Denmark. In his home at Valsted there was a large group of ten siblings, and already as a six year old boy Anton had to work as a shepherd boy at the same time as he started to go to school. His father was a bricklayer, and so were a few of his brothers. At the age of sixteen he followed the family tradition and became a bricklayer's apprentice. In 1898 he came to Copenhagen to work as a bricklayer. Here in 1900 …