biography
pronunciation:
[fiyt]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1753–1824)
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| biography:
| Novelist and poet, born in Zwolle, NC Netherlands. The most sentimental Dutch writer of his time, he found inspiration in Percy, Young, Goethe, Klopstock, and Herder. Many of his poems were later included in Protestant song books. Among his followers was the writer Elisabeth Post, and among his opponents, who regarded his sentimentalism as demoralizing, were H Van Alphen, J Bellamy, J Kinker, and W Bilderdijk. |
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