biography
| name: |
Leopold, Jan Hendrik
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pronunciation:
[layohpold]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1865–1925)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in 's-Hertogenbosch, S Netherlands. He studied classics and became a teacher in Rotterdam. He chose to lead an isolated life, and his poems echo his sensitivity and loneliness. He translated Sophocles, Homerus, and Shakespeare, and adapted work of the Persian poet Omar Khayyám. His work was written in the Symbolist tradition, drawing on the poetry of the Movement of the Eighties, but with a philosophical edge. |
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