biography
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Mérode, Willem de
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pseudonym of Willem Eduard Keuning
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pronunciation:
[duh merohduh]
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| lived:
| (1887–1939)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Spijk, E Netherlands. He worked until 1924 as a teacher. A Protestant, he is seen as one of the most important Dutch Christian poets between the two world wars, inspired by Gossaert. His poems express the conflict between a religious love and secular (homosexual) love. |
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