/lit/ - Literature

In Sweden everyone's grandma is a devotee of C.M Bellman and he's a foundation of most other literary endeavours. His works are rococco drinking or vau-de-ville songs with an extremely seedy subject matter and yet enshrouded depths of irony but they have stood up in all subsequent schools of critique and the chaste pastorals and such he wrote were also unparalleled in the language.
I've been told Wagner's librettos are signifcant else it's often hard to assess what engenders an appeal or esteem, words or music.

nobody knows
allegedly he was a pious christian and wrote a lot of songs for money

this ones a classic somewhere