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Facts

Born June 27, 1808 • Zwolle • Netherlands
Died February 3, 1875 (aged 66) • Amsterdam • Netherlands

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Everhardus Johannes Potgieter, lithograph by P. Blommers after a portrait by N.J.W. de Roode
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Albert Verwey
Dutch poet
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Frederik Willem van Eeden
Dutch author and physician
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Edgar du Perron
Dutch writer and critic
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Willem Kloos
Dutch author
Heinsius, Daniël
Daniël Heinsius
Dutch poet
Isaäc da Costa, engraving by P. Blommers after a painting by A.J. Ehnle
Isaäc da Costa
Dutch writer
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Hendrik Marsman
Dutch poet and critic
Menno ter Braak
Menno ter Braak
Dutch critic
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Jan Hendrik Leopold
Dutch poet
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Lodewijk van Deyssel
Dutch author
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Henric Laurenszoon Spieghel
Dutch poet
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Augusto de Campos
Brazilian poet and critic
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
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José Lezama Lima
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Severo Sarduy
Cuban writer
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, portrait by an unknown artist.
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov
Russian author
Leigh Hunt, detail of a watercolour and gouache on ivory by Margaret Gillies, 1838–46; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Leigh Hunt
British author
John Jay Chapman.
John Jay Chapman
American writer
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet

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