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ATTERBOM, PER DANIEL AMADEUS (1790-1855)
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See also:ATTERBOM, PER See also:DANIEL AMADEUS (1790-1855) , See also:Swedish poet, son of a See also:country See also:parson, was See also:born in the See also:province of Ostergotland on the 19th of See also:January 1790. He studied in the university of See also:Upsala from 1805 to 1815, and became See also:professor of See also:philosophy there in 1828. He was the first See also:great poet of the romantic See also:movement which, inaugurated by the See also:critical See also:work of Lorenzo Hammerskold, was to revolutionize Swedish literature. In 1807, when in his seventeenth See also:year, he founded at Upsala an See also:artistic society, called the See also:Aurora See also:League, the members of which included V. F. Palmblad, A. A. Grafstrom (d. 1870), See also:Samuel Hedborn (d. 1849), and other youths whpse names were destined to take a foremost See also:rank in the literature of their See also:generation. Their first newspaper, Polyfem, was a crude effort, soon abandoned, but in 1810 there began to appear a See also:journal, Fosforos, edited by Atterbom, which lasted for three years and finds a See also:place in classic Swedish literature. It consisted entirely of See also:poetry and aesthetico-polemical essays; it introduced the study of the newly arisen Romantic school of See also:Germany, and formed a vehicle for the See also:early See also:works, not of Atterbom only, but of Hammerskold, See also: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, Svensk Litteraturtidning (1813-1824). Among Atterbom's See also:independent works the most celebrated is Lycksalighetens 0 (The Fortunate See also:Island), a romantic See also:drama of extraordinary beauty, published in 1823. Before this he had published a See also:cycle of lyrics, Blommorna (The See also:Flowers), of a mystical See also:character, See also:ATTERBURY somewhat in the manner of See also:Novalis. Of a dramatized See also:fairy See also:tale, Fogel bid (The See also:Blue See also: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, but his more ambitious works are injured by his weakness for See also:allegory and symbolism, and his consistent See also:adoption of the mannerisms of See also:Tieck and Novalis. In his later years he became less violent in See also:literary controversy. He became in 1835 professor of See also:aesthetics and literature at Upsala, and four years later he was admitted to the Swedish See also:Academy. He died on the 21st of See also:July 1855. His Svenska Siare och Skalder (6 vols., 1841-1855, supplement, 1864) consists of a See also:series of See also:biographies of Swedish poets and men of letters, which forms a valuable See also:history of Swedish letters down to the end of the "classical " See also:period. Atterbom's works were collected (13 vols., See also:Orebro) in 1854-1870. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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