Carl Snoilsky
Count Carl Snoilsky (born September 8, 1841 in Stockholm , † May 19, 1903 in Stockholm) was a Swedish poet.
Life
Snoilsky comes from a noble family. From 1860 he began studying at Uppsala University . Here he was elected a member of the Namnlösa sällskapet (“Nameless Society”), an association of poets who published their poems under pseudonyms (“signatures”, hence the name “signature poet”). Snoilsky published under the pseudonym "Sven Tröst". After completing his studies, Snoilsky entered the diplomatic service and worked in Madrid and Paris , among others . In 1869, Snoilsky published his first poems under his own name and had great success with it.
Snoilsky subsequently worked in the Swedish Foreign Ministry. In 1876 he was elected a member of the Swedish Academy . In 1879 Snoilsky gave up his job and left his wife to move away from Sweden with his lover. He settled in Dresden . In 1880 he married his mistress. In 1891 Snoilsky returned to Stockholm and became a librarian at the Royal Library.
plant
In his early poems, Snoilsky celebrated joie de vivre, pleasure and beauty. After that, Snoilsky mainly wrote perfectly shaped sonnets . His main work are the Svenska pictures made in Dresden (see below). In the last years of his life, Snoilsky also turned to social issues.
Snoilsky's poems live less through their intellectual content and their philosophical content than through their sensuality. Snoilsky was a master of language who could handle sound and rhythm with virtuosity and who created poems of extraordinary beauty.
Svenska pictures
In 1886 Snoilsky published his collection of poems Svenska bilder ("Swedish Pictures"). In ballads and song-like poems, Snoilsky described events and people from Swedish history. Snoilsky not only portrays kings, but also artists like Carl Michael Bellman and Esaias Tegnér and scientists like Carl von Linné . But the common people are not forgotten either when Snoilsky describes the catastrophic consequences of the national monetary policy for the people in the poem På Värnamo marknad (“At the Värnamo Fair ”). But above all, Snoilsky convinces with his ingenious use of language, for example in the poem Stenbocks kurir (“Stenbocks Kurier”) with the breathless, galloping rhythm he describes the courier's mad ride across Sweden.
Snoilsky's Svenska pictures still have a special status as classics in Sweden, alongside Tegnérs Fritiof's saga and Runeberg's Ensign Stahl .
literature
- Bernt Olsson, Ingemar Algulin: Litteraturens historia i Sverige . 4th edition. Norstedt, Stockholm 1995, ISBN 91-1-943632-7 .
- Göran Hägg: Den svenska literaturhistorien . Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm 1996, ISBN 91-46-16928-8 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Snoilsky, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 19, 1903 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |