JOHAN HENRIK See also:

• JOHAN HENRIK KELLGREN (1751–1795)

KELLGREN (1751–1795)  , See also:

• SWEDISH

Swedish poet and critic, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Floby in See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West Gothland, on the 1st of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 17 51 . He studied at the university of See also:

• ABO (Finnish Turku)

Abo, and had already some reputation as a poet when in 1774 he there became a " docent " in See also:

• AESTHETICS

aesthetics . Three years later he removed to Stock-holm, where in See also:

• CONJUNCTION (from Lat. conjungere, to join together)

conjunction with See also:

• ASSESSOR (Lat. assessare, assidere, to sit by)

Assessor Carl Lenngren he began in 1778 the publication of the See also:

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

journal Stockholmsposten, of which he was See also:

• SOLE (Solea)

sole editor from 1788 onwards . See also:

• KELLGREN, JOHAN HENRIK (1751–1795)

Kellgren was librarian to Gustavus III. from 1780, and from 1785 his private secretary . On the institution of the Swedish See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy in 1786719 he was appointed one of its first members . He died at Stock-holm on the loth of See also:

• APRIL

April 1795 . His strong satiric tendency led him into numerous controversies, the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief that with the critic See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas Thorild, against whom he directed his See also:

• SATIRE (Lat. satira, satura; see below)

satire Nyt forsok till orimmad vers, where he sneers at the " raving of See also:

• SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616)

Shakespeare " and " the See also:

• CONVULSIONS

convulsions of See also:

• GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON (1749-1832)

Goethe," His lack of See also:

• HUMOUR (Latin humor)

humour detracts from the See also:

• INTEREST

interest of his polemical writings . His poetical See also:

• WORKS

works are partly lyrical, partly dramatic; of the plays the versification belongs to him, the plots being due to Gustavus III . The songs interspersed in the four operas which they produced in See also:

• COMMON

common, viz., Gustaf See also:

• VASA, or NIKOLAISTAD

Vasa, Gustaf Adolf och Ebba See also:

• BRAKE

Brake, See also:

• AENEAS

Aeneas i Kartago, and Drottning See also:

• KRISHNA (the Dark One)

Krishna, are wholly the See also:

• WORK

work of Kellgren . From about the See also:

• YEAR

year 1788 a higher and graver feeling pervades Kellgren's verses, partly owing to the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of the works of See also:

• LESSING, GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM (1729–1781)

Lessing and Goethe, but probably more directly due to his controversy with Thorild . Of his See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

minor poems written before that date the most important are the charming See also:

• SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring-See also:

• SONG

song Vinterns valde lyktar, and the satrical See also:

• MINA, FRANCISCO ESPOZ Y (1781-1836)

Mina lojen and See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

Man See also:

• EGER (Czech, Cheb)
• EGER (Ger. Erlau, Med. Lat. Agria)
• EGER, AQIBA (1761–1837)

eger ej snille for det man di- See also:

• GALEN (or GALENUS), CLAUDIUS
• GALEN, CHRISTOPH BERNHARD, FREIHERR VON (16o6-1678)

galen . The best productions of what is called his later See also:

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

period are the satire Ljusets fiender, the comic poem Dumboms lefverne, the warmly patriotic Kantat d .

1. See also:

• JAN

jan . 1789, the See also:

• ODE (Gr. uiSri, from aei&ew, to sing)

ode Till Kristina, the fragment See also:

• SIGWART, CHRISTOPH WILHELM VON (1789-1844)

Sigwart och Hilma, and the beautiful song Nya skapelsen, both in thought and See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form the finest of his works . Among his lyrics are the choicest fruits of the Gustavian See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of Swedish letters . His earlier efforts, indeed, See also:

• EXPRESS (through the French from the past participle of the Lat. exprimere, to press out, by transference used of representing objects in painting or sculpture, or of thoughts, &c. in words)

express the superficial doubt and pert frivolousness characteristic of his See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time; but in the works"of his riper years he is no See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

mere " poet of See also:

• PLEASURE (through Fr. plaisir from Lat. placere, to please; Gr. rlbovii)

pleasure," as Thorild contemptuously styled him, but a worthy exponent of See also:

• EARNEST (probably a corruption of the obsolete arles or erles, adapted from Lat. equivalent arrha, due to a confusion with the adjective " earnest," serious, O. Eng. eornust, cognate with Ger. ernst)

earnest moral feeling and See also:

• WISE, HENRY ALEXANDER (1806-1876)
• WISE, ISAAC MAYER (1819-1900)

wise human sympathies in felicitous and melodius See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse . His Samlade skrifter (3 vols., 1796; a later edition, 1884–1885) were revised by himself . His See also:

• CORRESPONDENCE
• CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

correspondence with Rosenstein and with Clewberg was edited by H . Schilck (1886–1887 and 1894) . See Wieselgren, Sveriges skOna litteratur (1833–1849); See also:

• ATTERBOM, PER DANIEL AMADEUS (1790-1855)

Atterbom, Svenska siare och skalder (1841–1855) ; C . W . See also:

• BOTTIGER, KARL AUGUST (176o-1835)

Bottiger in Transactions of the Swedish Academy, xlv. to7 seq . (187o); and Gustaf See also:

• LJUNGGREN, GUSTAF HAKAN JORDAN (1823–1905)

Ljunggren's Kellgren, See also:

• LEOPOLD (M.H. Ger. Liupolt; O.H. Ger. Liupald, from hut, Mod. Ger. Leute, " people," and paid, " bold," i.e. " bold for the people ")

Leopold, och Thorild, and his Svenska vitterhetens hafder (1873-1877) .