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University where he graduated in 1852. As a boy, his earliest biographer tells us, he was fully determined to be a poet - and, naturally, the foremost poet of his time - but, as years passed, he gained a soberer estimate of his possibilities. At the University he was one of a group of kindred spirits with eager literary leanings, and it did not take him long to gain a certain footing in the world of journalism. His work for the first year or two was mainly in the domain of dramatic criticism, but the creative instinct was growing in him. A youth ful effort of his - a drama entitled Valborg - was actually accepted for production at the Christiania theatre, and the author, according to custom, was put on the free list at once. The experience he gained, however, by assiduous attendance at the theatre so convinced him of the defects in his own bantling, that he withdrew it before performance - a heroic act of self-criticism rare amongst young authors.

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