PER See also:

• DANIEL
• DANIEL (DANIL)
• DANIEL, BOOK
• DANIEL, GABRIEL (1649-1728)

DANIEL AMADEUS See also:

• PER DANIEL AMADEUS ATTERBOM (1790-1855)

ATTERBOM (1790-1855)  , See also:

• SWEDISH

Swedish poet, son of a See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country See also:

• PARSON

parson, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of Ostergotland on the 19th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1790 . He studied in the university of See also:

• UPSALA, or UPPSALA

Upsala from 1805 to 1815, and became See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy there in 1828 . He was the first See also:

• GREAT

great poet of the romantic See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement which, inaugurated by the See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical See also:

• WORK

work of Lorenzo Hammerskold, was to revolutionize Swedish literature . In 1807, when in his seventeenth See also:

• YEAR

year, he founded at Upsala an See also:

• ARTISTIC

artistic society, called the See also:

• AURORA
• AURORA (perhaps through a form ausosa from Sansk. ush, to burn ; the common idea of " brightness " suggests a connexion with aurum, gold)

Aurora See also:

• LEAGUE

League, the members of which included V . F . Palmblad, A . A . Grafstrom (d . 1870), See also:

• SAMUEL

Samuel Hedborn (d . 1849), and other youths whpse names were destined to take a foremost See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank in the literature of their See also:

• GENERATION (from Lat. generare, to beget, procreate; genus, stock, race)

generation . Their first newspaper, Polyfem, was a crude effort, soon abandoned, but in 1810 there began to appear a See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

journal, Fosforos, edited by See also:

• ATTERBOM, PER DANIEL AMADEUS (1790-1855)

Atterbom, which lasted for three years and finds a See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in classic Swedish literature . It consisted entirely of See also:

• POETRY

poetry and aesthetico-polemical essays; it introduced the study of the newly arisen Romantic school of See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, and formed a vehicle for the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• WORKS

works, not of Atterbom only, but of Hammerskold, See also:

• DAHLGREN, JOHN ADOLF (1809-1870)
• DAHLGREN, KARL FREDRIK (1791-1844)

Dahlgren, Palmblad and others .

Later, the members of the Aurora League established the Poetisk Kalender (1812-1822), in which their poems appeared, and a new critical See also:

• ORGAN

organ, Svensk Litteraturtidning (1813-1824) . Among Atterbom's See also:

• INDEPENDENT

independent works the most celebrated is Lycksalighetens 0 (The Fortunate See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island), a romantic See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama of extraordinary beauty, published in 1823 . Before this he had published a See also:

• CYCLE
• CYCLE (Gr. KUK)^os, a circle)

cycle of lyrics, Blommorna (The See also:

• FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

Flowers), of a mystical See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character, See also:

• ATTERBURY, FRANCIS (1662-1732)

ATTERBURY somewhat in the manner of See also:

• NOVALIS

Novalis . Of a dramatized See also:

• FAIRY (Fr. fee, faerie; Prov. facia; Sp. hada; Ital. fata; med. Lat. fatare, to enchant, from Lat. fatum, fate, destiny)

fairy See also:

• TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

tale, Fogel bid (The See also:

• BLUE (common in different forms to most European languages)

Blue See also:

• BIRD

Bird), only a fragment, which is among the most exquisite of his writings, is preserved . As a purely lyrical poet he has not been excelled in See also:

• SWEDEN
• SWEDEN [Sverige]
• SWEDEN, NORWAY AND

Sweden, but his more ambitious works are injured by his weakness for See also:

• ALLEGORY (iXXos, other, and ayopeuav, to speak)

allegory and symbolism, and his consistent See also:

• ADOPTION (Lat. adoptio, for adoptalio, from adoptare, to choose for oneself)

adoption of the mannerisms of See also:

• TIECK, JOHANN LUDWIG

Tieck and Novalis . In his later years he became less violent in See also:

• LITERARY

literary controversy . He became in 1835 professor of See also:

• AESTHETICS

aesthetics and literature at Upsala, and four years later he was admitted to the Swedish See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy . He died on the 21st of See also:

• JULY

July 1855 . His Svenska Siare och Skalder (6 vols., 1841-1855, supplement, 1864) consists of a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of See also:

• BIOGRAPHIES

biographies of Swedish poets and men of letters, which forms a valuable See also:

• HISTORY

history of Swedish letters down to the end of the "classical " See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period . Atterbom's works were collected (13 vols., See also:

• OREBRO

Orebro) in 1854-1870 .