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DAHLGREN, KARL FREDRIK (1791-1844)

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DAHLGREN, KARL FREDRIK (1791-1844) , See also:Swedish poet, was See also:born at Stensbruk in Ostergotland on the loth of See also:June 1791. At a See also:time when See also:literary partisanship ran high in See also:Sweden, and the writers divided themselves into " Goths " and " Phosphorists," Dahlgren made himself indispensable to the Phosphorists by his polemical activity. In the See also:mock-heroic poem of Markalls somnlosa natter (Markall's Sleepless Nights), in which the Phosphorists ridiculed the academician Per See also:Adam Wallmark and others, Dahlgren, who was a genuine humorist, took a prominent See also:part. In 5825 he published Babels Torn (The See also:Tower of See also:Babel), a See also:satire, and a See also:comedy, See also:Argus in Olympen; and in 1828 two volumes of poems. In 1829 he was appointed to an ecclesiastical See also:post in See also:Stockholm, which he held until his See also:death. In a See also:series of odes and dithyrambic pieces, entitled Mollbergs Epistlar (1819, 1820), he strove to emulate the wonderful lyric See also:genius of K. M. Gellman, of whom he was a student and follower. From 1825 to 1827 he edited a See also:critical See also:journal entitled Kometen (The See also:Comet), and in See also:company with Almgvist he founded the Manhemsforbund, a See also:short-lived society of agricultural socialists. In 1834 he collected his poems in one See also:volume; and in 1837 appeared his last See also:book, Angbdts-Sdnger (Steamboat Songs). On the 1st of May 1844 he died at Stockholm. Dahlgren is one of the best humorous writers that Sweden has produced; but he was perhaps at his best in realistic and idyllic description.

His little poem of Zephyr and the Girl, which is to be found in every selection from Swedish See also:

poetry, is a See also:good example of his sensuous and ornamented See also:style. His See also:works were collected and published after his death by A. J.

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