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Born March 26, 1756? • Stockholm • Sweden
Died November 9, 1829 • Stockholm • Sweden
Notable Works “The Sermonizer”

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Carl Gustaf af Leopold, oil painting by J.G. Sandberg, 1832; in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden
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Atterbom
Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom
Swedish author
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Karl Vennberg
Swedish poet
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Artur Lundkvist
Swedish writer and critic
Levertin, oil painting by C.O. Larsson, 1906; in the Bonniers' Collection, Stockholm
Oscar Ivar Levertin
Swedish poet and scholar
Thorild, pen-and-ink drawing by A.U. Berndes, c. 1780; in a private collection
Thomas Thorild
Swedish poet
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Frans Gunnar Bengtsson
Swedish author
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Werner Aspenström
Swedish poet and essayist
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Augusto de Campos
Brazilian poet and critic
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet
German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson
American writer
James Russell Lowell.
James Russell Lowell
American poet and critic
Octavio Paz.
Octavio Paz
Mexican writer and diplomat

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