Tuomas Anhava

[1] Anhava's works closely follow the mold of modernist tradition of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot.

The poems closely resemble the Japanese and Chinese poetry that Anhava had translated during the same period.

Anhava went to apply his acquaintance with the simplification and compression of Oriental epigrams in his later works like Runoja (1961) and Kuudes kirja The Sixth Book (1966).

Nevertheless, he is credited and revered for the great impact he had on Finnish poets (and by extension on Finnish poetry), which was a result of his unwavering devotion to attaining aesthetic perfection.

[3] He was married to the poet, writer and translator Helena (Pohjanpää) Anhava (1925-2018).