Classical and Modern features in the poetry of Sweden's first female poet, Sophia Elisabeth Brenner (1659-1730)

Arne Jönsson

Classical and Modern features in the poetry of Sweden's first female poet, Sophia Elisabeth Brenner (1659-1730)

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Sophia Elisabeth Brenner's poems in Swedish, German, Latin, Italian and French made her well-known in Sweden and internationally and she was called 'the tenth muse'. Her collected poems were published in 1713 and posthumously in 1732. The paper explores how Mrs. Brenner made use of classical mythology and history when composing poems in Swedish. Antiquity provided her with a treasure of motives, but she was not an unqualified admirer of the ancients who, she claimed, had been surpassed by contemporary Sweden.

Original language	English
Publication status	Unpublished - 2013
Event	Colloquium Balticum XII Marburgense, 2013 - Marburg, Marburg, Germany Duration: 2013 Nov 7 → 2013 Nov 9

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Conference	Colloquium Balticum XII Marburgense, 2013
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Marburg
Period	2013/11/07 → 2013/11/09

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Languages and Literature

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mythology
Baroque poetry

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Classical and Modern features in the poetry of Sweden's first female poet, Sophia Elisabeth Brenner (1659-1730)

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