biography
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Kloos, Willem (Johannes Theodorus)
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pronunciation:
[klohs]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1859–1938)
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| biography:
| Poet and literary critic, born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His first poem Rhodopis was published in 1880. He was still unknown when he published the poems of the late poet Jacques Perk in 1882, for which he wrote an elaborate introduction which came to be regarded as the manifesto of the Movement of the Eighties (Beweging van Tachtig). In 1885 he co-founded the magazine De nieuwe Gids, and remained editor until his death. He expressed the aesthetic ideas of the Movement of the Eighties most clearly and stayed loyal to those ideas throughout his life, both as a critic and as a poet. His poems, individualistic and subjective, inspired by longing for absolute beauty, give expression to the passionate, tormented poet that he was. His importance was considerable during the period 1885–94, but as he kept repeating himself, his work lost value and power. |
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