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poetry ; Mr. Ramel, the rich member, of the academy of belles- 
lettres, already noticed; Mr. Lehnberg, a clergyman, who feveral 
times gained the prize; an imitator of the French poet Thomas— 
his thoughts are unnatural and far-fetched, his ftyle turgid and 
bombaftic; Mr. Tingftadius, profeffor of Upfala, celebrated in the 
north for his tranflation of the Pfalms, the book of Job, and other 
poetical portions of the feriptures; Mr. Gyllenftolpe—this man 
has not written any thing; and it is commonly faid in Stockholm, 
that it is for this reafon that the Swedifh academicians, out of 
gratitude, have admitted him into their number. 
Befides the poets who are members either of the Swedifh aca¬ 
demy, or that for the cultivation of languages, antiquities, and li¬ 
terary talents in general, there are feveral others of more celebrity, 
or much more popular with the Sw edifh nation, than moft of the 
poetical academicians, or rather academical poets. Mr. Lidner’s 
poem on the death of the Countefs of Spaftara endeavouring to 
fave her child out of the flames, and that on the laft judgment, 
abound in fublime ideas and pathetic fentiments. Mr. Torild 
has written a poem on the paflions, which difplays an intimate 
acquaintance with the human mind, as well as a fine and lively 
imagination; yet in my judgment it will not bear a comparifon 
with the ode of the Engllfli poet Collins, where the niceft obfer- 
vations on the condud of the human heart and mind, when in a 
Rate of various emotion, are poured forth in a {train of the moft 
charming novelty. Though the name of Collins in his own 
country be mentioned with refped and approbation, yet is his 
fame, 
