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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Johan Henrik Kellgren (1751–1795)

Kellgren, Johan Henrik (kel’gren). One of the greatest of Swedish poets; born at Floby, West Gothland, Dec. 1, 1751; died on April 20, 1795. He excelled especially in lyrics, of which one of his finest is ‘Nya Skapelsen’ (The New Creation). Gustavus III., whose private librarian and secretary he was, furnished the plots of most of his dramas and operas, he himself contributing merely the versification. ‘Works’ 2 vols., 1884.