biography
pronunciation:
[ahkhterberkh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1905–62)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Langbroek, C Netherlands. He gave up a career in education to engage in writing poetry with Symbolist and mythological overtones characterized by a longing for the unattainable. In 1937 his life took a dramatic turn when he was sentenced to detention under a hospital order for the murder of his landlady, but he still continued to write. His linguistic performance and inventive imagery was held in high esteem by the Movement of Fifty (Vijftigers), virtually the only poet from the era before the Movement to do so. His work was influential, and he received both the Constantijn Huygensprijs and the P C Hooft-prijs. |
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