En critik öfver critiker

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En critik öfver critiker (1791–92), meaning "A Critique of Critics," is a work by Thomas Thorild, a Swedish poet and critic. In this work, Thorild advocated for poetic freedom and positive literary evaluation, challenging the prevailing influence of French classicism on Swedish culture. He is considered the first Romanticist in Swedish literature. Thorild's writings also touched upon social reform and philosophy, and he developed a style of aphoristic formulations reminiscent of ancient Swedish legal texts.123

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Thomas Thorild
…positive literary evaluation in his En critik öfver critiker (1791–92; “A Critique of Critics”), an advocacy of poetic freedom by the first Romanticist in Swedish literature. Thorild became a heroic symbol of freedom in the wake of the French Revolution. (By 1794 he had distanced himself from its excesses.) Banished…
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…positive literary evaluation in his En critik öfver critiker (1791–92; “A Critique of Critics”), an advocacy of poetic freedom by the first Romanticist in Swedish literature. Thorild became a heroic symbol of freedom in the wake of the French Revolution. (By 1794 he had distanced himself from its excesses.) Banished…
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