Carl Snoilsky

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Carl Snoilsky (1841–1903)

Count Carl Johan Gustaf Snoilsky (8 September 1841 – 19 May 1903) was a Swedish diplomat and lyricist of probable Slovene descent. He was the most prominent early realist and was a member of the Swedish Academy. His life and work was a major influence on the playwright Henrik Ibsen, in particular Ibsen's play Rosmersholm.[1]

Biography

Snoilsky was born in

Swedish Foreign Ministry. As early as 1861, under the pseudonym of Sven Tröst, he began to print poems, and he soon became the center of the brilliant literary society of the capital. In 1862 he published a collection of lyrics called Orchideer ("Orchids"). During 1864 and 1865 he was in Madrid and Paris on diplomatic missions. It was in 1869, when he first collected his Dikter under his own name, that Snoilsky took rank among the most eminent contemporary poets. His Sonnetter[3] in 1871 increased his reputation. Then, for some years, Snoilsky abandoned poetry, and devoted himself to the work of the Foreign Office and to the study of numismatics.[4]

In 1876, however, he published a translation of the

Royal Library. He died at Stockholm on May 19, 1903. His Samlade dikter were collected (Stockholm, 5 vols.) in 1903–1904.[5]

Regarding his origins, the slavist Alfred Jensen reported to the Slovenian poet Anton Aškerc that Snoilsky was of Slovene descent. Carl Snoilsky said that his ancestor was a Protestant pastor Snoilshik from Znojile in Carniola who titled himself Labacus (from Ljubljana).[6] The claim, which was popularised in Slovenia by the poet Anton Aškerc, has not been fully proven, but it is plausible. The name has been associated with the Carniolan protestant reformer Johann Snoilshik [sl].[7]

Evaluation

His literary influence in Sweden was very great; he always sang of joy and liberty and beauty, and in his lyrics, more than in most modern verse, the ecstasy of youth finds expression. He is remarkable, also, for the extreme delicacy and melodiousness of his verse-forms.[5]

References

  1. ISSN 2590-9754
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  2. ^ Warburg, Karl (1905). Carl Snoilsky, hans lefnad och skaldskap (in Swedish). H. Geber. p. 15.
  3. ^ Sonnetter /Af Carl Snoilsky. 1871.
  4. ^ Chisholm 1911, pp. 294–295.
  5. ^ a b Chisholm 1911, p. 295.
  6. ISSN 2590-9754
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  7. ISSN 2590-9754
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