FINE EXAMPLE OF THE PROGRAM SCRIPT FIVE YOUNG FROM 1929.

Five young. Young literary anthology. Erik Asklund - Josef Kjellgren - Artur Lundkvist - Harry Martinson - Gustav Sandgren. Albert Bonnier's publisher, Stockholm, 1929. 8vo in a tasteful green half-French binding with red covers. Sparing gilt spine decoration and a gilt dot at the top of the front cover. Covers bound together. Bound by Bonniers Bokbinderi with their label. 152 p.
Fem unga was a brick wall for young workers' literature in Sweden, almost a program script. The anthology challenged the prevailing literary conventions with its free verse forms and the authors' advocacy of primitivism and the "life worship" of all aspects of existence attracted attention. The young writers were influenced by poets such as Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes and Elmer Diktonius and took impressions from Futurism.