C.V.A. Strandberg

Carl Wilhelm August beach mountain ( sometimes spelled Carl Vilhelm or Karl Vilhelm ), pseudonym Talis Qualis, sometimes Talis Qvalis written ( born January 16, 1818 in Stigtomta, Nykoping, † February 5, 1877 in Stockholm) was a Swedish author and journalist, and since 1862 a member of the Swedish Academy.

Life

CWA beach mountain began in 1837 to study and received his law degree in 1847. In the same year he married. He died in 1877 sitting at his desk, a fate that also his successor in the Swedish Academy, Viktor Rydberg suffered. Beach mountain wrote in 1844 the text of the Swedish royal anthem Ur svenska hjärtans djup s gång. The reason for this was not necessarily enthusiasm for the royal family, but rather the desire that the King should start a war of aggression against Russia to retake Finland. Beach mountain itself was sympathetic to republican and revolutionary ideas.

Beach mountain was one of the most famous bards in the post-Romantic period in Sweden. His first poem was dominated politically and influenced by the political poetry " Young Germany". He wrote it as a student in Lund, describing it with stormy expressions, the freedom aspirations of young people and the sympathy for the oppressed people that moved many Swedes in the 1840s, as well as the hatred of Russia.

Gradually, he created his own style, which Johan Ludvig Runeberg similar style that was characterized by melodious, sometimes dramatic expressions, but also had a certain brevity. His first collection of poetry was published panser under the martial title Sånger i ( songs in the tank ) and contained many ardent, reckless poems, such as Vaticinum, which, like many others, to war against the "Goliath of the world" (Russia) calls ( " Finland, I would like to call "). For this collection included the king song.

After this collection of poems followed Vilda rosor ( Wild Roses ) and more other, but later developed into more maturity and hinentwickelten to the moderate realism of Runeberg. In addition to her own poems beach mountain translated foreign poetry into Swedish, among others, the poems of Lord Byron.

Works

• Sånger i Pansar (1845 )
• Vilda rosor (1848 )
• Dikter (1854, 1861)
• Samlade vitterhetsarbeten (1877-1878)