De Ondergang der eerste wareld
epic poem by Bilderdijk
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De ondergang der eerste wareld (The Destruction of the First World) is an unfinished epic poem by Willem Bilderdijk, a Dutch poet influential in the Netherlands during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.1
The poem dramatically portrays the primordial struggle between Cain's son and the progeny of his daughters. Bilderdijk's work, though sometimes in a dry, rhetorical style, also introduced new poetic diction and ideas to Dutch poetry, influencing early 19th-century Romantic nostalgia.1
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