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886 [Doc. 313.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
letter to Ericus Benzelius (see Document 39, Vol. I, p. 208). It
was included in the second and third editions of Swedenborg’s Ludus
Heliconius, &c.
1715. (4.) Camena Borea cum Heroum et Heroidum factis
ludens: sive Fabella Ovidianis similes cum variis nominibus
scriptæ ab Eman. Swedberg (The Northern Muse sporting
with the deeds of heroes and heroines : or Fables similar
to those of Ovid, under various names. By Emanuel Swed
berg). Greifswalde, 1715 ; 112 pages, 16mo.
Swedenborg himself describes the object of this little work thus:
"I have now in the press some fables like those of Ovid, under
which the deeds and other affairs of certain kings and great men
are concealed" (see Document 47). The edition of this work, which
was intended for Sweden, seems to have been marked on the title
page simply with the initials E. S., so that it was classed at first
among the anonymous writings. In the Acta Literaria Sueciæ
for 1724 (p. 588) it is stated for the first time that by E. S. on its
title-page is to be understood Emanuel Swedenborg. This little
volume is dedicated to Count Gustav Cronhjelm (see Note 63).
A second edition was published by Dr. Im. Tafel in 1845 ; the
first edition having become so rare that for thirty-four years he was
unable to obtain a copy of it. The copy from which his edition
was printed, he borrowed from Prof. Barthold of Greifswalde.
1716. (5.) Ludus Heliconius sive Carmina Miscellanea, quæ
variis in locis cecinit Eman. Swedberg (The Heliconian
Sport, or Miscellaneous Poems written in various places by
Emanuel Swedberg). Scara, 1716 ; 16 pages, 4to.
These poems, although printed in 1716, were for the most part
written during Swedenborg’s travels. They are characterized by Dr.
J. J. Garth Wilkinson,280 * thus: "These poems display fancy, but a
controlled imagination. If we may convey to the English reader
such a notion of Latin verses, they remind one of the Pope school,
in which there is generally some theme or moral governing the
flights of the muse. Under various forms, they hymn the praises
of patriotism, love, friendship, and filial regard, and they love mytho
logical clothing." The most important of these poems is the first,
which is entitled : "A festive ode in celebration of the victory gained
by Count Magnus Stenbock295 over the Danes near Helsingborg in
* "Emanuel Swedenborg : a Biography," London, 1849, p. 9.
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