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Also Known As Willem Johan Theodoor Kloos
Born May 6, 1859 • Amsterdam • Netherlands
Died March 31, 1938 (aged 78) • The Hague • Netherlands
Founder “De Nieuwe Gids”
Subjects Of Study Dutch literature • poetry
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Albert Verwey
Dutch poet
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Frederik Willem van Eeden
Dutch author and physician
Heinsius, Daniël
Daniël Heinsius
Dutch poet
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Hendrik Marsman
Dutch poet and critic
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Hermanus Johannes Aloysius Maria Schaepman
Dutch statesman
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Edgar du Perron
Dutch writer and critic
Everhardus Johannes Potgieter, lithograph by P. Blommers after a portrait by N.J.W. de Roode
Everhardus Johannes Potgieter
Dutch author
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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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Anna Visscher
Dutch poet
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Helen Archibald Clarke
American writer and editor
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
English author
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Engraved portrait of Robert Burns, shown from the waist up wearing a dark jacket and cravat, facing slightly to the left.
Robert Burns
Scottish poet
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
James Russell Lowell.
James Russell Lowell
American poet and critic
Octavio Paz.
Octavio Paz
Mexican writer and diplomat
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Théophile Gautier
French author
Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, c. 1980
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat

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