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Born February 9, 1772 • Finland
Died August 14, 1847 (aged 75) • Sweden
Movement / Style Romanticism

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Franzén, oil painting by J.G. Sandberg, 1828; in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden
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Levertin, oil painting by C.O. Larsson, 1906; in the Bonniers' Collection, Stockholm
Oscar Ivar Levertin
Swedish poet and scholar
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Lidner, detail of an oil painting by Carl-Fredrik von Breda; in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden
Bengt Lidner
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Stagnelius, portrait by Julius Alexis Wetterbergh
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William Wordsworth
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Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
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Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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John Keats
British poet
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
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Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott
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