Lucidor

He is remembered for his burlesque poetry that is seen as foreshadowing that of Johan Runius and, especially, Carl Michael Bellman, and for his dramatic death in a tumultuous brawl at the Fimmelstången tavern in Gamla stan in Stockholm.

One piece brought him in trouble: Giliare Kwaal ("A suitor's sufferings"), a poem for the wedding in November 1669 of the powerful nobleman Conrad Gyllenstierna to Märta Christina Ulfsparre.

Giliare Kwaal, however, was received as libel by Conrad Gyllenstierna, who reported the author to the Svea hovrätt, the appeal court.

In 1689, Johan Andersin, an accountant who had been a friend of Lucidor, published a collection of his poetry with the title Helicons blomster/ plåckade ok wid åtskillige tillfällen utdelte af Lucidor den olycklige, subtitled det är alle de poëtiske skrifter som författade blefue af Lasse Johanson.

The main authors influencing the image of Lucidor were Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Oscar Levertin and (in the early 20th century) Erik Axel Karlfeldt.

The musicologist and musician Martin Bagge (who is also known as an interpreter of the works of Bellman) has published a collection of Lucidor's poems with musical annotation, and a CD recording them.

Lasse Lucidor.
The front page of "Helicons blomster", the posthumous collection of poems by the poet Lucidor, published in 1688.
Front page of funeral poem for the young boy Sven Edenius.