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THROUGH SWEDEN. Fog
poetry; Mr. Ramel, the rich member. of the academy of belles-
lettres, already noticed; Mr. Lehnberg, a clergyman, who feveral
times gained the prize; an imitator of the French poet Thomas—
his thoughts are unnatural and far-fetched, his ftyle turgid and
bombaftic; Mr. Tingftadius, profeflor of Upfala, celebrated in the
north for his tranflation of the Pfalms, the book of Job, and other
poetical portions of the fcriptures; Mr. Gyllenftolpe—this man
has not written any thing; and it is commonly faid in Stockholm,
that it is for this reafon that the Swedifh academicians, out of
gratitude, have admitted him into their number.
Befides the poets who are members either of the Swedith aca-
demy, or that for the cultivation of languages, antiquities, and li-
terary talents in general, there are feveral others of more celebrity,
or much more popular with the Swedifh nation, than moft of the
poetical academicians, or rather academical poets. Mr. Lidner’s
poem on the death of the Countefs of Spaftara endeavouring to
fave her child out of the flames, and that on the laft judgment,
abound in fublime ideas and pathetic fentiments. Mr. Torild
has written a poem on the paffions, which difplays an intimate
acquaintance with the human mind, as well as a fine and lively
imagination ; yet in my judgment it will not bear a comparifon
with the ode of the Englifh poct Collins, where the niceft obfer-
yations on the conduct of the human heart and mind, when ina
ftate of various emotion, are poured forth in a ftrain of the moft
charming novelty. Though the name of Collins in his own
country be mentioned with refpect and approbation, yet is his
fame,
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