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Samuel Columbus. Utgiven av Bernt Olsson och Barbro Nilsson. Stockholm: Svenska Vitterhetssamfundet, 1994. (Svenska forfattare: Ny serie.). I: 266, II: 353.

Samuel Columbus (1642-1679) has occupied a place of measured honor in the literary annals of the age when Sweden was a great military and political power, if not an artistic one. He was less overwhelming than his mentor, Georg Stiernhielm, and less colorful, by a long shot, than Lars Wivallius, whose "Ack Libertas, du ad...