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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 167. Not illustrated. Chapters: Par Lagerkvist, Verner Von Heidenstam, Carl Michael Bellman, Zachris Topelius, Kristina Lugn, Viktor Rydberg, Edith Sodergran, Ture Nerman, Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna, Dan Andersson, Gustaf Froding, Gunnar Ekelof, Karin Boye, Lars Gustafsson, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Tomas Transtromer, Hjalmar Gullberg, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Karl Vennberg, Erik Johan Stagnelius, Tua Forsstrom, Oscar Levertin, Bo Bergman, Gunno Dahlstierna, Gustaf Philip Creutz, Majken Johansson, Bengt Lidner, Kjell Westo, Nils Ferlin, Anders Abraham Grafstrom, Artur Lundkvist, Thomas Thorild, Bodil Malmsten, Karl Fredrik Dahlgren, Bruno K. Oijer, Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Sonja Akesson, Werner Aspenstrom, Julia Nyberg, Beppe Wolgers, K. J. Gabrielsson, Oscar Patric Sturzen-Becker, Elmer Diktonius. Excerpt: Abraham Viktor Rydberg (Jonkoping, December 18, 1828 Djursholm, September 21, 1895) was a Swedish writer and a member of the Swedish Academy, 1877-1895. "Primarily a classical idealist," "Viktor Rydberg, poet, novelist, essayist, idealist philosopher and one of the prominent figures in Swedish intellectual life in the latter half of the nineteenth century," has been described as "Sweden's last Romantic" and by 1859 was "generally regarded in the first rank of Swedish novelists." "The leading cultural figure of his day, he also wrote works on philosophy, philology, and aesthetics." As "an idealist faithful to the Romantic tradition in poetry and thought, but with a mind receptive to the ideas of a new age. He achieved an unequalled position of authority in Swedish literature" and "with his broad range of achievements, greatly influenced Swedish cultural life" He came to be described by subsequent biographer Judith Moffett as "a 'man of letters': a journalist, novelist, poet, religious historian, an expert on Norse mythology and the...
