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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Intermediate and advanced language learners of Dutch who wish to encounter verse and develop a feel for the language
- Students and researchers in Dutch literature or comparative literature
- Readers who enjoy late nineteenth-century European lyric poetry and are willing to research the background themselves
Not a good fit for
- General readers hoping for a Chinese translation or a bilingual annotated edition
- Beginners seeking a detailed biography of the author and an introduction to the works
- Readers who prefer contemporary poetry or strongly narrative works
Reading tips
- Read through once to feel the rhythm without looking up every word, then read closely a second time with a dictionary.
- Read alongside Dutch audio recordings to appreciate rhyme and syllable.
- Read in groups by theme or length, and after every few poems note discoveries about language and imagery.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Frans Bastiaanse (1868–1947) was a Dutch poet and literary critic active in the Dutch literary world at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His writing and critical work spanned this transitional period: he took part in the literary currents of the time through his poetry and engaged in literary debate through his reviews. One work by him is held in the collection, the poetry collection Gedichten, which serves as the main textual basis for understanding his poetic output. Public information on the details of his life, his education and his specific literary views is limited and cannot be described in depth. Judging from the available information, his parallel work as poet and critic reflects the dual role of creation and criticism characteristic of Dutch literary figures of that generation, and played a part in shaping and spreading the literary tastes of the period.
