Thank you Kai Steffen, from the Greifswald University Library. (Goethe and Lessing are already on the dead library-poets list)
(From Brittanica) Thomas Thorild, original name Thomas Thorén (born April 18, 1759, Svarteborg, Sweden—died October 1, 1808, Greifswald, Swedish Pomerania [now Mecklenburg-West Pomerania Land, Germany]), poet and critic who opposed the influence of French classicism on Swedish culture.
After studying at the University of Lund, Thorild became a tutor. When a literary prize competition was held in Stockholm, he entered Passionerna (1781; “The Passions”), his first poem. Although it won only honourable mention, Passionerna, a philosophic expression of pantheistic feeling for nature, greatly startled literary Stockholm. Thorild became increasingly involved in writing on social reform and philosophy during his later years, but
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