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The Romantic School 361
Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom.
rights. So the period of
the New Romanticism
opened with its poetry
and song. Its writers
found comfort in escap-
ing from the cold pro-
saic reality and dream-
ing themselves into
peace and bliss in an
unseen world of fancy.
Per Daniel Amadeus
Atterbom. The fore-
most poet of this ro-
mantic movement was
Atterbom. In his chief
poem, which is also the
chief poem of the whole
movement, "Lycksalighetens 6" (The Isle of Bliss), he
sings :
"Oh, if there were a magic
That would submerge our naked world of fact
So very deep in fancy’s dream-world sea,
That never bridge could reach from our dull earth
To fancy’s ever summer-verdant isle
I would at once, no matter what the price,
Exchange for such a blissful world of dreams
My conscious life."
Together with other romantic youths, Atterbom as
a young Uppsala student founded, in the year 1807,
the Aurora Association. It was an inspired band of
young men who placed as the aim of their songs noth-
ing less than to be the "dawn" of Swedish poetry. A
new springtime had come for Swedish literature.
A History of Sweden. 24.
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