Gustaf Fröding

Japanese: フレーディング（英語表記）Gustaf Fröding

1860‐1911
Swedish poet. Due to a hereditary mental illness, he enrolled in Uppsala University but did not graduate. He also worked as a newspaper reporter in his hometown of Värmland, but spent the rest of his life in a hospital recuperating. His first collection of poems, Guitar and Organ (1891), was compiled and published while he was recuperating, and he later published Splash and Rags (1896), Drops from the Holy Grail (1898), and, posthumously, Healed (1913). As a local poet, his poems, which express his kind-heartedness and humor, as well as his hidden anger at social injustice, are still loved by many people today.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1860‐1911
スウェーデンの詩人。遺伝性の精神病疾患のため，ウプサラ大学に入学するが卒業にいたらず，郷里ベルムランドで新聞記者をしていたこともあるが，療養，病院生活のうちに生涯を終える。療養中に整理出版した処女詩集《ギターと手風琴》(1891)以後，《逬り（ほとばしり）とぼろと》(1896)，《聖杯の雫》(1898)，死後出版に《病癒えて》(1913)がある。郷土詩人として，ユーモアを忘れぬ心優しさ，底に秘めた社会の不正への怒りをたたえた詩は，今も多くの人々に愛されている。

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