Gustav Philip, Count Creutz

Gustav Philip, Count Creutz (born May 1, 1731, Anjala, Swedish Finland [now in Finland]—died October 30, 1785, Stockholm, Sweden) was a Swedish poet whose light and graceful verse expressed the prevailing Rococo spirit and Epicurean philosophy of his time. Creutz went to Stockholm in 1751 and obtained a post at court in 1756. His literary output was small, and he is remembered mainly for two poems—his early “Sommar-qväde” (1756; “Summer Song”) and the rather erotic...