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Born March 26, 1756? • Stockholm • Sweden
Died November 9, 1829 • Stockholm • Sweden
Notable Works “The Sermonizer”

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Thorild, pen-and-ink drawing by A.U. Berndes, c. 1780; in a private collection
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D.H. Lawrence
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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
T.S. Eliot, 1955
T.S. Eliot
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Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.
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Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
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Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Maggie Nelson
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James Russell Lowell.
James Russell Lowell
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