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BEETS, NIKOLAAS (1814-1903)

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BEETS, NIKOLAAS (1814-1903) , Dutch poet, was See also:born at See also:Haarlem on the 13th of See also:September 1814; See also:constant references in his poems and sketches show how deeply the beauty of that See also:town and its neighbourhood impressed his See also:imagination. He studied'See also:theology in See also:Leiden, but gave himself See also:early to the cultivation of See also:poetry. In his youth Beets was entirely carried away on the See also:tide of Byronism which was then sweeping over See also:Europe, and his early works—Jose (1834), Kuser (1835) and See also:Guy de Vlaming (1837)—are gloomy romances of the most impassioned type. But at the very same See also:time he was beginning in See also:prose the composite See also:work of See also:humour and observation which has made him famous, and which certainly had nothing that was in the least Byronic about it. This was the celebrated See also:Camera Obscura (1839), the most successful imaginative work which any Dutch-See also:man of the 19th See also:century produced. This work, published under the See also:pseudonym of " See also:Hildebrand," goes back in its earliest inception to the See also:year 1835, when Beets was only twenty-one. It consists of See also:complete See also:short stories, descriptive sketches, studies of See also:peasant life—all See also:instinct with humour and pathos, and written in a See also:style of See also:great See also:charm; it has been reprinted in countless See also:editions. Beets became a See also:professor at the university of Leiden, and the pastor of a See also:congregation in that See also:city. In See also:middle See also:life he published further collections of verse—Cornflowers (1853) and New Poems (1857)—in which the romantic See also:melancholy was found to have disappeared, and to have See also:left in its See also:place a See also:gentle sentiment and a See also:depth of religious feeling. In 1873–1875 Beets collected his See also:works in three volumes. In See also:April 1883 the honorary degree of LL.D. Edin. was conferred upon him.

He died at See also:

Utrecht on the 13th-of See also:March 1903.

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