The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . who have known Klopstock respect as muchas they admire him. Religion, liberty, love, occupiedall his thoughts. His religious profession was found inthe performance of all his duties : he even gave up thecause of liberty when innocent blood would have defiledit; and fidelity consecrated all the attachments of hisheart. Never had he recourse to his imagination tojustify an error; it exalted his sou
The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . who have known Klopstock respect as muchas they admire him. Religion, liberty, love, occupiedall his thoughts. His religious profession was found inthe performance of all his duties : he even gave up thecause of liberty when innocent blood would have defiledit; and fidelity consecrated all the attachments of hisheart. Never had he recourse to his imagination tojustify an error; it exalted his soul without leading itastray. It is said that his conversation was full of witand taste ; that he loved the society of women, particu-larly of French women, and that he was a good judge ofthat sort of charm and grace which pedantry readily believe it, for there is always something ofuniversality in genius, and perhaps it is connected bysecret ties to grace, at least to that grace which is be-stowed by nature. How far distant is such a man fromenvy, selfishness, excess of vanity, which many writershave excused in themselves in the name of the talentsthey possessed I—De VAlletnagtie,. 346 STAGNELIUS, Erik Johan, a Swedish poet,born on the island of Oland, October 14, 1793;died at Stockholm, April 13, 1823. His father be-came Bishop of Kalmar, and the son was educatedat the University of Lund. His reputation as apoet in his native country is second only to thatof Tegner. Many of his poems are in the form ofSonnets, some of which have been translated intoEnglish by Edmund Gosse, who says of them: Though exceedingly mystical, and often obscure,they are certainly the most original in the Swed-ish language. The most signal specimen, says Longfellow,* of a genius at once precocious and productive,which the annals of Swedish literature afford, isStagnelius. ... He was, says a Swedishwriter, one of those truly poetic beings to whomGoethes beautiful comparison, likening the lif
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