Fredmans Epistlar by Carl Michael Bellman
A celebrated cycle of eighty-two lyrical epistles that paints a vivid, often comic and occasionally tragic portrait of 18th‑century Stockholm through a cast of recurring characters—notably a tipsy watchmaker-narrator and the alluring Ulla Winblad—blending bawdy tavern scenes, love, revelry and death with classical allusion, baroque musicality and sharp social observation; written as performable songs and parodic letters, the work fuses elegant poetic technique and inventive wordplay with earthy realism to capture both the city’s joyous excesses and its underlying melancholy.
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- Published
- 1790
- Nationality
- Swedish
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- Swedish
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