Piet Paaltjens

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  Joost van den Vondel

  Joost van den Vondel (1587 – 1679) was a Dutch author, poet and playwright. The most prominent Dutch poet and playwright of the 17th century, he is considered the national poet of the Netherlands. His play Gijsbrecht van Aemstel (1637) was performed annually on New Year's Day from 1637 to 1968, and remains one of the Netherlands most famed plays.
  
  Vondel remained productive until a very old age. Several of his most notable plays like Lucifer (1654) and Adam in Exile (1664) were written when he was already over 65 years old, and his final play Noah, written at the age of eighty, is considered one of his finest.

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  Menno ter Braak

  Menno ter Braak was a Dutch writer and literary critic, considered the Netherlands’ most important essayist and cultural critic during the Interbellum period. His shrewd intellect and challenging of preciousness in art earned him the title of the ‘conscience of Dutch literature’.
  
  Together with friend and collaborator Edgar du Perron he founded the influential literary magazine “Forum”, which called for a rejection of contemporary aestheticism, as well as the Committee of Vigilance of anti-National Socialist Intellectuals.
  
  In 1937, Ter Braak wrote what today stands as one of the most scathingly perceptive indict­ments of the Nazi movement, “National Socialism as a Doctrine of Rancour”, in which he expressed his urgent concern for the growing p

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  Hans Faverey

  Hans Faverey (1933-1990) werd geboren in Paramaribo en kwam in 1939 naar Nederland. Aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam studeerde hij psychologie. In 1959 trad hij in het huwelijk met de dichteres Lela Zeckovic. Sinds 1965 was hij als klinisch psycholoog verbonden aan de Universiteit Leiden. Hans Faverey begon gedichten te schrijven in de hoogste klassen van het Amsterdams Lyceum, toen hij via de stimulerende lessen van F. Lulofs kennis had gemaakt met de moderne Nederlandstalige poëzie.
  
  Zijn ontdekking van de poëzie van Paul van Ostaijen was een belangrijk moment, zoals hij in een van zijn schaarse interviews gezegd heeft. In de loop van de jaren vijftig verdiepte hij zich in de moderne Nederlandse poëzie, met name die van Kouwenaar, alsook i

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