Bull, Olaf Jacob Martin Luther (1883–1933)

Norwegian lyric poet. He often celebrated his birthplace Christiania (now Oslo) in his poetry. He was the son of the humorist and fiction writer Jacob Breda Bull (1853–1930).

In his first published work, Digte/Poems (1909), he introduced a reflective, serious poetry, written in classically regular form, combining springtime joy with consciousness of the transience of all life. His later poetry is generally darker in mood, but returns often to the theme of art's ability to transcend mortality and fix the passing moment for ever, as in ‘Metope’ (1927).