Yeah, high culture often loses in the long run. The first Swedish literature that survives in living form (that is, it's read outside of seminars) is Carl Micha

Yeah, high culture often loses in the long run. The first Swedish literature that survives in living form (that is, it's read outside of seminars) is Carl Michael Bellman's drinking songs. They have outlasted all the overwrought poems that his contemporaries put out. I guess it helps that they're really very good.