He attained distinction in Swedish letters, his first work to attract wide attention being his
Ode on the Birth of the Prince-Royal Gustavus Adolphus (1778). He was appointed private secretary to
Gustavus III in 1788 and stood high in the regard of that monarch. His odes on the martial achievements of the Swedes were among his most popular productions, and his tragedies
Odin (1790) and
Virginia (1802) were highly successful. He attempted all forms of poetry save the epic. In 1799 he was made deputy director (). In 1818 he was appointed State Secretary. He was a bulwark of
French Classicism against the attacks of the
Romantic Phosphorists. He has been compared to the German
Johann Christoph Gottsched. His
Samlade skrifter were published (Vols. I-III, 1800–02; Vols. IV-VI, 1831–33). ==Notes==