Oscar Levertin

Oscar Ivar Levertin (17 July 1862,

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From 1899 until his early death in 1906 he also occupied the first Chair of literary history at the

University of Stockholm

, in which role he published extensive studies, particularly in Swedish 18th century literature.

Overview

In his own short story collections in the 1880s, Levertin first aligned himself with the

sources. This volume remains highly regarded today, though no longer widely read. Poems from it, including the ballad "Flores och Blanzeflor", remained set texts in Swedish schools into the 1970s.

In culture

Levertin is depicted as Olof Levini in Hjalmar Söderberg's 1912 novel The Serious Game (Swedish: Den Allvarsamma Leken).^[1]

Bibliography

• Från Rivieran: skisser från Medelhavskusten (1883)
• Småmynt (1883)
• Konflikter: nya noveller (1885)
• Pepitas bröllop (with Verner von Heidenstam) (1890)
• Legender och visor (1891)
• Diktare och drömmare (1898)
• Rococo-noveller (1899)
• Magistrarne i Österås (1900)
• Svenska gestalter (1903)
• Kung Salomo och Morolf (1905)

See also

• Flores and Blancheflour

References

This article contains content from the Owl Edition of Nordisk familjebok, a Swedish encyclopedia published between 1904 and 1926, now in the public domain.

External links

• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Levertin, Oscar Ivan" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 510–511.
• Listen to a free MP3 recording of Wilhelm Stenhammars music to Levertins poem Vårnatt with Hemavans Sommarkör 2006.