This article discusses the influence of Jean-François de Saint-Lambert on the Swedish poet Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna (1750–1818). In Sweden, Les Saisons was not perceived as a descriptive and philosophical poem, but as proof that Virgil’s Georgics could be recreated in vernacular language. This article seeks above all to show how a political interpretation of the landscape, latent in the Latin model but absent in Saint-Lambert’s poem, was revived in the Swedish context.
ISBN:978-2-406-07059-7
ISSN: 2105-2689
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-07059-7.p.0017
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
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Keyword: eighteenth-century literature, French literature, Swedish literature, Latin literature, comparative literature
