De Nieuwe Gids
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De Nieuwe Gids (The New Guide) was a Dutch literary periodical that began publication in 1885. It marked the start of a significant literary revival in the northern Netherlands. Unlike its predecessor, De Gids, De Nieuwe Gids focused solely on aesthetic ideals.
Key figures associated with this movement included poets Willem Kloos and Albert Verwey, as well as the critic Lodewijk van Deyssel. Other prominent writers of the period were Frederik van Eeden, Herman Gorter, Pieter Cornelis Boutens, and Jan Hendrik Leopold.1
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- Frederik Willem van Eeden
…and Albert Verwey, founded (1885) De nieuwe gids, a literary periodical devoted to modern authors and new social ideas. Later he practiced medicine at Bussum, near Hilversum, where he started a clinic for physical therapy. In 1898 he founded Walden, an agricultural colony based on the ideas of Thoreau. Van…
Read More…and Albert Verwey, founded (1885) De nieuwe gids, a literary periodical devoted to modern authors and new social ideas. Later he practiced medicine at Bussum, near Hilversum, where he started a clinic for physical therapy. In 1898 he founded Walden, an agricultural colony based on the ideas of Thoreau. Van…
Read More - Willem Kloos
…and mainstay of its periodical, De nieuwe gids (“The New Guide”). A ruthless critic of the rhetorical, passionless nature of traditional Dutch writing, Kloos continually championed the idea of beauty as the highest value in art and life.
Read More…and mainstay of its periodical, De nieuwe gids (“The New Guide”). A ruthless critic of the rhetorical, passionless nature of traditional Dutch writing, Kloos continually championed the idea of beauty as the highest value in art and life.
Read More - Albert Verwey
…in 1885 of the periodical De nieuwe gids (“The New Guide”), which was one of the chief organs of the Dutch literary revival of the 1880s. Verwey contributed sonnets and other poems to this periodical. His own poetry manifested a unique form of mysticism that was influenced by the pantheism…
Read More…in 1885 of the periodical De nieuwe gids (“The New Guide”), which was one of the chief organs of the Dutch literary revival of the 1880s. Verwey contributed sonnets and other poems to this periodical. His own poetry manifested a unique form of mysticism that was influenced by the pantheism…
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