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Among his lyrics are the choicest fruits of the Gustavian age of Swedish letters. His earlier efforts, indeed, express the superficial doubt and pert frivolousness characteristic of his time; but in the works of his riper years he is no mere "poet of pleasure," as Thorild contemptuously styled him,
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and Goethe, but probably more directly due to his controversy with Thorild. Of his minor poems written before that date the most important are the charming spring-song
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but a worthy exponent of earnest moral feeling and wise human sympathies in felicitous and melodious verse.
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He died at Stockholm. Kellgren was never married, but was at one point the lover of the prima donna
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From about 1788 a graver feeling pervades Kellgren's verses, owing partly to the influence of
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Johan Henrik Kellgrens bref till Abraham Niclas Clewberg / utgifna af Henrik Schück
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from 1780, and became his private secretary in 1785. At the establishment of the
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tendency led him into numerous controversies, the chief that with the critic
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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Skrifter utgivna av Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland
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Evald Hansen
sv
Swedish
poet
critic
Floby
Västergötland
Falköping Municipality
Västra Götaland County
Royal Academy of Turku
aesthetics
Stockholm
Stockholms-Posten
Carl Lenngren
sv
Gustavus III
Swedish Academy
Fredrique Löwen
satiric
Thomas Thorild
Shakespeare
Goethe
operas
Gustaf Wasa
Gustaf Adolf och Ebba Brahe
Lessing
Carl Michael Bellman
Nils von Rosenstein
Abraham Niclas Clewberg

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