Peer Gynt is undoubtedly the juiciest of all Ibsen's poems. The poet is not yet entirely master of his art here. But you have, as a compensation, a poetry more robust, and it is so rich that one could say he scatters pearls around him.

As a satirical personification of a people's mentality, one can place Peer Gynt in the same line as those figures created by poets of other nations to mock their compatriots, as Cervantes and Dode did. However, Don Quixote is a much larger figure when compared to Peer Gynt. Tartarin is much smaller. Nevertheless, the three of them are related.