Scandinavian Literature, Poetic Realism

About 1830, early Romanticism gave way to a less naive poetic realism, more contemplative and more concerned with form than with content. Johan Ludvig Heiberg, who led this movement, attempted to revivify Danish drama by importing French vaudeville, and in his serious romantic plays Elverh�j (1828; �The Elfinhill�) and Syvsoverdag (1840; �Day of the Seven Sleepers�) he juxtaposed poetic