biography
pronunciation:
[styernyelm]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1598–1672)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Vika, C Sweden. He studied at Uppsala and in Germany. Ennobled by Gustavus Adolphus, he became the favourite court poet of Queen Christina. Besides much lyric poetry, he wrote a didactic allegorical poem, Hercules (1647). He has come to be known as ‘the father of Swedish poetry’. |
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