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Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom: Quick Facts

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Born January 19, 1790 • Sweden
Died July 21, 1855 (aged 65) • Stockholm • Sweden
Notable Works “Blommorna” • “Lycksalighetens ö” • “Svenska siare och skalder”
Movement / Style Romanticism
Subjects Of Study Swedish literature

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Levertin, oil painting by C.O. Larsson, 1906; in the Bonniers' Collection, Stockholm
Oscar Ivar Levertin
Swedish poet and scholar
Stagnelius, portrait by Julius Alexis Wetterbergh
Erik Johan Stagnelius
Swedish poet
German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet
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Théophile Gautier
French author
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Karl Vennberg
Swedish poet
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
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
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa smiling, shown in a close-up portrait with gray hair, wearing a suit and tie.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian author
Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes
Mexican writer and diplomat
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
John Jay Chapman.
John Jay Chapman
American writer
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
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Johan Borgen
Norwegian author
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Suzanne Lilar
Belgian author
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Eric Bentley
American critic, translator, and stage director
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Johann Christoph Gottsched
German literary critic

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