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Gustaf Fröding was born in Alster outside Karlstad in Värmland on August 22, 1860. The family moved to Kristinehamn in the year 1867.
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Gustaf Fröding
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He spent three years at Uppsala University but left without having graduated.
Career
After a series of nervous breakdowns he stayed for several months at a German sanatorium.
His first collection, Gitarr och dragharmonika, was published in 1891 (English translation, Guitar and Concertina, 1925). A second collection, Nya dikter (1894; "New Poems"), contained a section, "From Värmland" which firmly established the poet's artistic reputation; by this time, however, incipient insanity had made itself evident.
From 1894 on, Fröding waged a hopeless fight against the dark powers in his life.
His collected works were published in 16 volumes in Stockholm, 1917-1922. A volume entitled Selected Poems was published in New York in 1916.
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Personality
Fröding's moral qualities were those of a prophet. These qualifications, combined with his artistic command of the Swedish language, make him one of the poetic geniuses of Sweden.
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