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Atterbom, Per (Daniel Amadeus)

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Atterbom, Per (Daniel Amadeus) (1790-1855)

Swedish poet and critic. His works include two poetic dramas, the incomplete Fågel Blå/The Blue Bird and Lycksalighetens Ö/The Isle of Bliss (1824-27), and a series of lyrics Blommorna/The Flowers (1812-36). His work is characterized by philosophic and religious meditations and obscure allegory.

Atterbom was born in Åsbo. Östergötland, and studied at Uppsala, where he founded the Aurora League, a society for the reform of Swedish literature and the propagation of the new Romantic ideals. In 1835 he was made professor of literature at Uppsala.



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