In the 1930s, the first academic English translations,An independent English translation of selections/excerpts of Kierkegaard appeared in 1923 by Lee Hollander, and published by the University of Texas at Austin. by Alexander Dru, David F. Swenson, Douglas V. Steere, and Walter Lowrie appeared, under the editorial efforts of Oxford University Press editor Charles Williams,Chasrles Williams mentioned Kierkegaard like this in 1939 No doubt as soon as Kierkegaard becomes fashionable he will be explained. His imagination will be made to depend on his personal history, and his sayings will be so moderated in our minds that they will soon become not his sayings but ours. It is a very terrible thing to consider how often this has happened with the great, and how often we are contented to understand what we have neatly supposed that they have said. The Descent of the Dove: A Short History of the Holy Spirit in the Church by Charles Williams 1939, 2002 P. 213 one of the members of the Inklings.See Michael J. Paulus, Jr. From A Publisher's Point of View: Charles Williams's Role in Publishing Kierkegaard in English – online Thomas Henry Croxall, another early translator, Lowrie, and Dru all hoped that people would not just read about Kierkegaard but would actually read his works.Kierkegaard studies, with special reference to (a) the Bible (b) our own age. Thomas Henry Croxall, 1948, pp. 16–18. Dru published an English translation of Kierkegaard's Journals in 1958;The Journals of Kierkegaard (1958) Archive.org Alastair Hannay translated some of Kierkegaard's works for Penguin Classics.: "[Hannay's] popular translations of Kierkegaard's primary texts in the Penguin Classics series also opened up the Dane's thinking for generations of students." From the 1960s to the 1990s, Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong translated his works more than once."Howard and Edna Hong" . Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library. St. Olaf College. Retrieved 11 March 2012. The first volume of their first version of the Journals and Papers (Indiana, 1967–1978) won the 1968 U.S. National Book Award in category Translation."National Book Awards – 1968". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 11 March 2012. They both dedicated their lives to the study of Søren Kierkegaard and his works, which are maintained at the Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library.See this video about the mission and history of the Søren Kierkegaard research library at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN Jon Stewart from the University of Copenhagen has written extensively about Søren Kierkegaard.
In the 1930s, the first academic English translations,An independent English translation of selections/excerpts of Kierkegaard appeared in 1923 by Lee Hollander, and published by the University of Texas at Austin. by Alexander Dru, David F. Swenson, Douglas V. Steere, and Walter Lowrie appeared, under the editorial efforts of Oxford University Press editor Charles Williams,Chasrles Williams mentioned Kierkegaard like this in 1939 No doubt as soon as Kierkegaard becomes fashionable he will be explained. His imagination will be made to depend on his personal history, and his sayings will be so moderated in our minds that they will soon become not his sayings but ours. It is a very terrible thing to consider how often this has happened with the great, and how often we are contented to understand what we have neatly supposed that they have said. The Descent of the Dove: A Short History of the Holy Spirit in the Church by Charles Williams 1939, 2002 P. 213 one of the members of the Inklings.See Michael J. Paulus, Jr. From A Publisher's Point of View: Charles Williams's Role in Publishing Kierkegaard in English – online Thomas Henry Croxall, another early translator, Lowrie, and Dru all hoped that people would not just read about Kierkegaard but would actually read his works.Kierkegaard studies, with special reference to (a) the Bible (b) our own age. Thomas Henry Croxall, 1948, pp. 16–18. Dru published an English translation of Kierkegaard's Journals in 1958;The Journals of Kierkegaard (1958) Archive.org Alastair Hannay translated some of Kierkegaard's works for Penguin Classics.: "[Hannay's] popular translations of Kierkegaard's primary texts in the Penguin Classics series also opened up the Dane's thinking for generations of students." From the 1960s to the 1990s, Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong translated his works more than once."Howard and Edna Hong"  Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library. St. Olaf College. Retrieved 11 March 2012. The first volume of their first version of the Journals and Papers (Indiana, 1967–1978) won the 1968 U.S. National Book Award in category Translation."National Book Awards – 1968". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 11 March 2012. They both dedicated their lives to the study of Søren Kierkegaard and his works, which are maintained at the Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library.See this video about the mission and history of the Søren Kierkegaard research library at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN Jon Stewart from the University of Copenhagen has written extensively about Søren Kierkegaard.