Author Archives: Gustaf Fröding

Living: 1860 - 1911

Place of birth: Alster Manor in Karlstad parish, Värmland

Gustaf Fröding was a Swedish writer, journalist and poet. One of his best-known collections of poems is Splashes and Tabs from 1896, which includes the poem A Morning Dream, which got him prosecuted but acquitted.

The poems that are best known and read are all written in the national Swedish language, albeit with the occasional Värmland expression. Fröding often describes the beautiful nature of Värmland in his poems, an environment he knew well from his childhood.

He spent long periods of time in various care institutions because of his mental illness, but what his actual diagnosis was is much debated. He died as a result of his alcoholism and diabetes.

The ideal

From the poetry collection Nya dikter (New Poems), first published in 1894.

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Feb
Gustaf Fröding
Freedom

From the poem Grail Splash from 1898

12
May
Gustaf Fröding
In youth

From the poetry collection Guitar and Accordion - Moods and Mood Pictures from 1891

16
Mar
Gustaf Fröding
The good old days

From the poetry collection Nya dikter (1894). The title is ironic; the already established phrase with its [...]

08
Feb
Gustaf Fröding
Thus spoke Zarathustra

From the poetry collection Nya dikter, first published in 1894.

17
Nov
Gustaf Fröding
The good and the noble

From the poetry collection Nya dikter, first published in 1894.

29
Sep
Girls on a Jämtland summer meadow
Stroll in the local area

A cycle of poems in four parts by Gustaf Fröding. It was published in 1896 in the poetry collection Stänk [...]

28
Jun
Gustaf Fröding
Idealism and realism

Included in the poetry collection Nya dikter, 1894.

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Mar