{{Short description|Finnish writer and poet (1903–1974)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{More citations needed|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | name = Rabbe Enckell | image = Rabbe-Enckell-1954.jpg | pseudonym = | birth_name = Rabbe Arnfinn Enckell | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1903|3|3}} | birth_place = Tammela, Finland | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1974|6|17|1903|3|3}} | death_place = Helsinki, Finland | resting_place = | occupation = | language = | nationality = | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = }} '''Rabbe Arnfinn Enckell''' (3 March 1903 &ndash; 17 June 1974) was a Finland-Swedish writer and poet.<ref name=":0">{{Writers in Finland 1917-1944}}</ref> Enckell is regarded as one of the stalwarts of the Finland-Swedish poetic revival that began in the 1920s.

Enckell was born in Tammela, Kanta-Häme, to the journalist and agriculturist Karl Enckell and Vesta Charlotta Edgren. Enckell graduated from the secondary school ''Svenska normallyceum'' in 1921 and then studied art history at the University of Helsinki.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BLF |url=https://www.blf.fi/artikel.php?id=1311 |access-date=2026-01-09 |website=www.blf.fi}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> He also studied art in France and Italy.

In 1923 he brought out his first poetry collection, entitled ''Dikter''. It was a collection of impressionistic nature poems. The collection and its sequel, Flöjtblåsarlycka (''The Flutist’s Happiness''), which was published in 1925, were contained Enckell's vivid description of the changes in nature. Enckell was a modernist. For a year in 1928-29 he worked for the avant-garde journal ''Quosego''. He then wrote a couple of semi-autobiographical novels, which included ''Ljusdunkel'' (1930). He returned to poetry with the publication of ''The Cistern of Spring'' (1931). He followed it with ''The Sounding Board'' (1935). The modernist streak in his poetry prompted comparisons with T.S. Eliot. Enckell brought out another collection of poems, ''The Vault'', which was published in 1937.<ref name="Enckell">{{cite web|title=Rabbe Enckell|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/186527/Rabbe-Enckell|work=Encyclopædia Britannica|accessdate=28 March 2014}}</ref> He died in Helsinki, aged 71.

==Works== * ''Dikter'' (''Poems'', poems, 1923) * ''Flöjtblåsarlyckan'' (''Flautist's Luck'', poems, 1925) * ''Tillblivelse'' (''Genesis'', short stories, 1929) * ''Ljusdunkel'' (short stories, 1930), * ''Ett porträtt'' (''A Portrait'', short stories, 1931) * ''Vårens cistern'' (''The Cistern of Spring'', poems, 1931) * ''Landskapet med den dubbla skuggan'' (''The Landscape with Double Shadows'', poems, 1933) * ''Tonbrädet'' (poems, 1935) * ''Herrar till natt och dag'' (short stories, 1937). * ''Lutad över brunnen'' (''Learning over the Well'', poems, 1942) * ''Andedräkt av koppar'' (''Breath of Copper'', poems, 1947), * ''Sett och återbördat'' (1950) * ''Essay om livets framfart'' (''An Essay about the Ravages of Life, a collection of essays'', 1961) * ''Det är dags'' (1965) * ''Flyende spegel'' (1974)

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