OSCAR See also:

• IVAN (JOHN)

IVAN See also:

• OSCAR IVAN LEVERTIN (1862-1906)

LEVERTIN (1862-1906)  , See also:

• SWEDISH

Swedish poet and See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man of letters, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born of Jewish parents at See also:

• NORRKOPING

Norrkoping on the 17th of See also:

• JULY

July 1862 . He received his doctorate in letters at See also:

• UPSALA, or UPPSALA

Upsala in 1887, and was subsequently docent at Upsala, and later See also:

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

professor of literature at See also:

• STOCKHOLM

Stockholm . Enforced sojourns in See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern See also:

• EUROPE

Europe on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of See also:

• HEALTH

health familiarized him with See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages . He began by being an extreme follower of the naturalist school, but on his return in 1890 from a two years' See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence in See also:

• DAVOS (Romonsch Tavau, a name variously explained as meaning a sheep pasture or simply " behind ")

Davos he wrote, in collaboration with the poet C . G . Verner von Heidenstam (b . 1859), a novel, Pepitas brollop (189o), which was a See also:

• DIRECT

direct attack on See also:

• NATURALISM

naturalism . His later volumes of See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short stories, Rococonoveller and Sista noveller, are See also:

• FINE

fine examples of See also:

• MODERN

modern Swedish fiction . The lyrical beauty of his poems, Legender och See also:

• VISOR (also spelled viser, vizor, vizard or visard)

visor (1891), placed him at the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of the romantic reaction in See also:

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

Sweden . In his poems entitled Nya Dikter (1894) he See also:

• DREW
• DREW, SAMUEL (1765-1833)

drew his material partly from See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval See also:

• SOURCES

sources, and a third See also:

• VOLUME

volume of See also:

• POETRY

poetry in 1902 sustained his reputation . His last poetical See also:

• WORK

work (1905) was Kung Salomo och Morolf, poems founded on an eastern See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend . As a critic he first attracted See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention by his books on the Gustavian See also:

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

age of Swedish letters: Teater och See also:

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

drama under Gustaf III .

(1889), &c . He was an active collaborator in the See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

review Ord och Bild . He died in 1906, at a 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 when he was engaged on his Linne, posthumously published, a fragment of a See also:

• GREAT

great work on See also:

• LINNAEUS

Linnaeus .