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Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom ( 1790 - 1855 ) was a Swedish romantic poet, and a member of the Swedish Academy .

Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy at the University Of Uppsala , he represents one of the most subversive tendencies of Swedish Romanticism , reflecting the aesthetic-religious revolution and the conservative-nationalistic devolution up to the medieval utopias.

He mantained the spiritual and linguistic superiority of the german peoples by the image of an eroic north against a sensual and musical south – in which Italy, even if painted with romantic '' Sehnsucht '', appears as a Deadland.


POETRY:

  • Blommorna (The Flowers)

  • Fågel Blå (Blue Bird) 1813

  • Lycksalighetens Ö (The Island of Happiness) 1824-27