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sole editor from 1788 onwards. Kellgren was librarian to Gustavus III. from 1780, and from 1785 his private secretary. On the institution of the Swedish See also:

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 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 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 See also:

eger ej snille for det man di- See also:

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

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

1. See also:

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

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 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 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).

End of Article: KELLGREN, JOHAN HENRIK (1751–1795)

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