1883. This volume contains critical essays written by Brandes about Ibsen and Bjornson. The first essay on the Norwegian playwright Ibsen, who is generally acknowledged as the founder of modern prose drama, was translated by Jessie Muir, features an introduction by William Archer, and Contains: First Impression (1867), Second Impression (1882), and Third Impression (1898). His essay on Bjornson, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1903 as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, was translated by Mary Morrison and consists of Impression (1882).