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POTGIETER, EVERHARDES JOHANNES (1808-1875) , Dutch See also:prose writer and poet, was See also:born at See also:Zwolle, in Overyssel, on the 17th of See also:June 18o8. He started See also:life in a See also:merchant's See also:office at See also:Antwerp. In 1831 he made a See also:journey to See also:Sweden, described in two volumes, which appeared at See also:Amsterdam in 1836-1840. Soon afterwards he settled in Amsterdam, engaged in commercial pursuits on his own See also:account, but with more and more inclination towards literature. With Heije, the popular poet of See also:Holland in those days, and Bakhuizen See also:van den Brink, the rising historian (see also GROEN VAN PRINSTERER), Potgieter founded De Muzen (" The See also:Muses," 1834-1836), a See also:literary See also:review, which was, how-ever, soon superseded by De Gids (" The See also:Guide "), a monthly, which became the leading See also:magazine of Holland. In it he wrote, mostly under the See also:initials of " W. D—g," a See also:great number of articles and poems. The first collected edition of his poems (1832-1868) appeared in 2 vols. (See also:Haarlem, 1868-1875), preceded by some of his contributions to De Gids, in 2 vols. also (Haarlem, 1864), and followed by 3 vols. of his Studien en Schetsen (" Studies and Sketches," Haarlem, 1879). Soon after his-See also:death (Feb. 3, 1875) a more comprehensive edition of Potgieter's Verspreide en Nagelaten Werken (" See also:Miscellaneous and See also:Posthumous See also:Works ") was published in 8 vols. by his friend and literary executor, Johan C. Zimmerman (Haarlem, 1875-1877), who likewise supervised a more See also:complete edition of Potgieter's writings which appeared at Haarlem in 1885-1890 in 19 vols.

Of Potgieter's Het Noorden in Omtrekken en Tafreelen (" The See also:

North in Outlines and Pictures ") the third edition was issued in 1882, and an edition de luxe of his poems followed at Haarlem in 1893. Under the See also:title of Personen en Onderwerpen (" Persons and Subjects ") many of Potgieter's criticisms had collectively appeared in 3 vols. at Haarlem in 1885, with an introduction by Busken-See also:Huet. Potgieter's favourite See also:master among the Dutch See also:classics was Hoeft, whose peculiarities in See also:style and See also:language he admired and imitated. The same vein of altruistic, if often exaggerated and biased, abhorrence of the wonted conventionalities of literary life runs through all his writings, even through his private See also:correspondence with Huet, parts of which have been published. Potgieter remained to his death the irreconcilable enemy of the Dutch " See also:Jan Salie," as the Dutchman is nicknamed who does not believe in the regeneration of the Dutch See also:people. Potgieter held up the Netherlanders of the See also:golden See also:age of the saa _}'a r So7T o, Ca°m,um SuansiiN - Pra,,,um PA...Pra°num See also:Ware + - of See also:Standard Voltaic See also:Cell. 16th and 17th centuries as See also:models to be emulated. In these views he essentially differed from Huet. Yet the two See also:friends worked harmoniously together; and when Potgieter reluctantly gave up De Gids in 1865, it was Huet whom he See also:chose as his successor. Both then proceeded to See also:Italy, and were See also:present at the See also:Dante festivities at See also:Florence, which in Potgieter's See also:case resulted in a poem in twenty stanzas, Florence (Haarlem, 1868). In Holland Potgieter's See also:influence has been very marked and beneficial; but his own style, that of ultra-purist, was at times somewhat forced, See also:stilted and not always easily understood. (H.

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