Erik Johan Stagnelius

Erik Johan Stagnelius ( born October 14, 1793 in Gärdslösa on Öland, † April 3, 1823 in Stockholm) was a Swedish Romantic poet.

Life

The pastor's son Erik Johan Stagnelius began in 1811 to study theology at the University of Lund, but after a year at the University of Uppsala, where he studied law. Here began his poetic oeuvre. He is regarded as a maverick in the Swedish literature, without contact with his contemporaries. The majority of his works was published posthumously. Stagnelius seal is often dark and difficult mystical and philosophical content. Here, his poems are characterized by extraordinary linguistic beauty and splendor of sound and formal perfection. The Swedish literary scholar Göran Hägg represents ( in the svenska litteraturhistorien, Stockholm 1996) the view Stagnelius was next to Carl Michael Bellman and Gustaf Fröding the only Swedish poet of world renown.

Award

Second Prize of Svenska academies i for the poem Kvinnan North ( The woman in the North) (1818 )

Works

  • Vladimir the Store ( 1817)
  • Kvinnan i norden (1818 )
  • Liljor i Saron, poetry collection ( 1821-22 )
  • Bacchanterna eller fanaticism, tragedy (1822 )
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