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Doc. 313. ] 887
CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.
March, 1710." "This poem," says Dr. Wilkinson, "has been spiritedly
paraphrased in our own days by Francis Barham, who considers it
by far the finest in the collection," and "to give the reader some
idea of the volume, as well as to adorn his pages," Dr. Wilkinson
inserted Barham’s version in his biography of Swedenborg (pp. 10
and 11). This poem, together with one entitled "Extempore Sport
addressed to a friend, Oxford, 1712," Swedenborg seems to have
composed in England in that year; for in August, 1712, he wrote
to Ericus Benzelius, "As my speculations made me for a time not
so sociable as is serviceable and useful for me, and as my spirits
are somewhat exhausted, I have taken refuge for a short time in
the study of poetry, that I might be somewhat recreated by it"
(Document 44, Vol. I, p, 222). Another poem which is addressed
"To a Celebrated Gentleman [John Palmqvist, see Note 61] upon
the arrival of his Wife, who had lately presented him with a
daughter," was written at Utrecht in Holland, in 1713. The rest,
among which is "A Fable of the Love of Perilla and Nereus," and
a poem on the "Death of the Dowager Queen Hedwig Eleonora,"
seem have to been written between 1713 and 1716.
A second edition of this little volume was printed by Carl Delén,
in Stockholm in 1826. He enriched his edition by a "Carmen
epistolare ad Virum Celsissimum" * (An epistolary poem addressed to
a distinguished gentleman), p. 20, &c.
A third edition was issued by Dr. Im. Tafel in 1841. He
embodied in his edition the poems described under nos. 3, 6, and 34.
1716. (6.) CANTUS SAPPHICUS in Charissimi Parentis Doct.
Jesperi Swedbergii, Episcopi Scarensis reverendissimi Diem
Natalem. Die XXVIII Augusti, Ann : 1716. Etatis 63,
sive Anni Climacterici magni (A Sapphic Poem in cele
bration of August 28, 1716, the birthday of my dearest
father, Doctor Jesper Swedberg, the Right Reverend
Bishop of Scara ; when he was sixty-three years old, which
is "the great climacteric year"). Scara, 1716.
This poem, which consists of ten verses, was inserted by Dr. Im. Tafel
in the third edition of the Ludus Heliconius, &c., p. 31 et seq.
* This “vir celsissimus" was no doubt Count Gustav Cronhjelm, to
whom Swedenborg dedicated his little work entitled "Camena Borea,"
(
No. 4 ;) for in this poem also Swedenborg calls upon him to receive kindly
his "Borea Camena," and to recommend it to Apollo.
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