Famous Dutch Poets - Famous Poets from Netherlands
The Dutch famous poets section is an educational source of information and inspiration featuring reknown Dutch poets. Here you will find famous Dutch Poets of our time and times past. Please let us know if we are missing a well-known Dutch poet and we'll add him or her.
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Adriaensz Bredero,
Gerbrand
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Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero (March 16, 1585 – August 23, 1618) was a Dutch poet and playwright in the period known as the Dutch Golden Age.. Dutch poet and playwright
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Campert,
Jan
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Jan Remco Theodoor Campert (Spijkenisse, The Netherlands August 15, 1902 — January 12, 1943) was a journalist, theater critic and writer who lived in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. During the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II Campert was arrested for aiding the Jews. He was held in the Neuengamme concentration camp, where he died.. Dutch poet and journalist
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Campert,
Remco
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Remco Campert (born 29 July 1929) is a Dutch author, poet and columnist.. son of Jan; Dutch poet and novelist
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Gorter,
Herman
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Herman Gorter (November 26, 1864, Wormerveer - September 15, 1927, Brussels) was a Dutch poet and socialist. He was a leading member of the Tachtigers, a highly influential group of Dutch writers who worked together in Amsterdam in the 1880s, centered around De Nieuwe Gids (The New Guide).. Dutch poet and socialist
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Meyer,
Henry
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Henry Meyer (1840–1925) was a poet originally from Brush Valley, (Centre County), Pennsylvania. His native language was Pennsylvania Dutch, and although he learned English in school, he wrote his poetry in "Dutch".. American poet; wrote in Pennsylvania Dutch
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Sastrowardoyo,
Subagio
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Subagio Sastrowardoyo (1 February 1924 - 18 July 1995) was an Indonesian poet, short-story writer, essayist and literary critic. Born in Madiun, East Java, the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), he was educated at Gadjah Mada University, Cornell University and Yale University. For many years, he was a director of Balai Pustaka, a publishing firm in Indonesia, as well as a senior lecturer at Salisbury College of Advanced Education and Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. In the summer of 1984, he was a guest instructor at Ohio University, teaching Indonesian.. Indonesian poet short-story writer essayist and literary critic
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Secundus,
Johannes
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Johannes Secundus (also Janus Secundus) (15 November 1511 – 25 September 1536) was a New Latin poet of Dutch nationality.. Dutch Neo-Latin poet
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Sterenborg,
Fenny
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Theuninck,
Jan
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Jan Theuninck (born 7 June 1954), is a Belgian painter and poet. Although born in Zonnebeke, Belgium, and a native speaker of Dutch, he writes in French and occasionally English. His painting is abstract, falling somewhere between minimalism and monochrome expressionism.. Belgian painter and poet
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van den Vondel,
Joost
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Joost van den Vondel (17 November 1587 – 5 February 1679) was a Dutch writer and playwright. He is considered the most prominent Dutch poet and playwright of the 17th century. His plays are the ones from that period that are still most frequently performed, and his epic Joannes de Boetgezant (1662), on the life of John the Baptist, has been called the greatest Dutch epic.. Dutch playwright poet
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Visscher,
Roemer
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Roemer Pieterszoon Visscher (1547 – 19 February 1620) was a successful Dutch merchant and writer in the period often called the Dutch Golden Age.. Dutch salesman writer and poet
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Ziegler,
Calvin
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Charles Calvin Ziegler (1854–1930) was a German-American poet from Rebersburg, Pennsylvania. His native language was Pennsylvania Dutch, and though he learned English in school he wrote his poetry in "Dutch". He is said to have been the most accomplished poet to write in that language, and may have written the only Pennsylvania Dutch sonnet on record.. German-American poet; wrote in Pennsylvania Dutch
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