Poetry
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Language learners studying Dutch who want to engage with original poetic texts
- Readers interested in nineteenth-century European poetry and Germanic literature
- Enthusiasts who need free public-domain poetic texts for recitation or excerpting
- Digital humanities readers studying the multilingual scope of Project Gutenberg
Not a good fit for
- Ordinary Chinese readers unfamiliar with Dutch and without translation aids
- Readers expecting long narrative or fictional plots
- Beginners who need detailed scholarly notes and background interpretation to read poetry
Reading tips
- First read several poems aloud to feel the sounds of Dutch, then use a dictionary to understand the meaning word by word.
- Read in groups by theme or length, close-reading a small amount each time rather than reading straight through.
- Excerpt favorite lines and mark unfamiliar words to build your own language-learning notes.
- Compare with Dutch or German poetry in the public domain to compare word choice and rhythm.
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
Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate (1819–1889) was a Dutch minister and poet. Public information about his life is limited, and his reputation rests chiefly on his poetry and translations. He wrote the poetry collection Poëzy, and his work is known for hymns and narrative poems, written in a solemn style rich in religious feeling, often weaving the experience of faith into his verse; in this he holds a place in the nineteenth-century Dutch tradition of religious poetry. Beyond his original poems, he devoted himself to translating Dante, introducing the Italian classic to Dutch-language readers. This translation work echoed both his calling as a minister and his literary interests, and it left its mark on the history of literary reception in his country. The present collection contains one work by him.
