Jacob Frese

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Jacob Frese

Finnish-Swedish author

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Finnish literature
From the Middle Ages to the 18th century
…poets of the 18th century—Jacob Frese and Frans Mikael Franzén—left their country of birth for Sweden. Frese regarded himself a refugee from an enemy-occupied Finland. He was a gentler and more intimate poet than such Swedish contemporaries as Johan Runius, and his lyrics and hymns contain some of the…
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…poets of the 18th century—Jacob Frese and Frans Mikael Franzén—left their country of birth for Sweden. Frese regarded himself a refugee from an enemy-occupied Finland. He was a gentler and more intimate poet than such Swedish contemporaries as Johan Runius, and his lyrics and hymns contain some of the…
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Swedish literature
The 17th century
Jacob Frese was a gentler and more intimate poet; his lyrics and hymns contain some of the emotional pietism that became a feature of 18th-century thought.
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Jacob Frese was a gentler and more intimate poet; his lyrics and hymns contain some of the emotional pietism that became a feature of 18th-century thought.
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