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href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%87%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AF%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D8%B2%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86" title="ادبیات هلندی‌زبان – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ادبیات هلندی‌زبان" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litt%C3%A9rature_n%C3%A9erlandaise" title="Littérature néerlandaise – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Littérature néerlandaise" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederl%C3%A2nsktalige_literatuer" title="Nederlânsktalige literatuer – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Nederlânsktalige literatuer" data-language-autonym="Frysk" 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Dutch-language literature is the product of <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">the Netherlands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Suriname" title="Suriname">Suriname</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles" title="Netherlands Antilles">Netherlands Antilles</a> and of formerly Dutch-speaking regions, such as <a href="/wiki/French_Flanders" title="French Flanders">French Flanders</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Dutch_East_Indies" title="Dutch East Indies">Dutch East Indies</a>, as Indonesia was called under Dutch colonization, spawned a <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Indies_literature" title="Dutch Indies literature">separate subsection</a> in Dutch-language literature.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Conversely, Dutch-language literature sometimes was and is produced by people originally from abroad who came to live in Dutch-speaking regions, such as <a href="/wiki/Anne_Frank" title="Anne Frank">Anne Frank</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kader_Abdolah" title="Kader Abdolah">Kader Abdolah</a>. In its earliest stages, Dutch-language literature is defined as those pieces of literary merit written in one of the Dutch dialects of the <a href="/wiki/Low_Countries" title="Low Countries">Low Countries</a>. Before the 17th century, there was no unified standard language; the dialects that are considered Dutch evolved from <a href="/wiki/Old_Frankish" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Frankish">Old Frankish</a>. A separate <a href="/wiki/Afrikaans_literature" title="Afrikaans literature">Afrikaans literature</a> started to emerge during the 19th century, and it shares the same literary roots as contemporary Dutch, as <a href="/wiki/Afrikaans_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Afrikaans language">Afrikaans</a> evolved from 17th-century Dutch. The term Dutch literature may either indicate in a narrow sense literature from the Netherlands, or alternatively Dutch-language literature (as it is understood in this article). </p><p>Until the end of the 11th century, Dutch literature, like literature elsewhere in Europe, was almost entirely <a href="/wiki/Speech_communication" class="mw-redirect" title="Speech communication">oral</a> and in the form of <a href="/wiki/Poetry" title="Poetry">poetry</a>. In the 12th and 13th century, writers starting writing <a href="/wiki/Romance_(heroic_literature)" class="mw-redirect" title="Romance (heroic literature)">chivalric romances</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hagiography" title="Hagiography">hagiographies</a> for noblemen. From the 13th century, literature became more didactic and developed a proto-national character, as it was written for the bourgeoisie. With the close of the 13th century a change appeared in Dutch literature. The Flemish and Hollandic towns began to prosper and a new sort of literary expression began. Around 1440, literary <a href="/wiki/Guild" title="Guild">guilds</a> called <i>rederijkerskamers</i> ("<a href="/wiki/Chamber_of_rhetoric" title="Chamber of rhetoric">Chambers of Rhetoric</a>") arose which were usually <a href="/wiki/Middle-class" class="mw-redirect" title="Middle-class">middle-class</a> in tone. Of these chambers, the earliest were almost entirely engaged in preparing <a href="/wiki/Mystery_play" title="Mystery play">mysteries</a> and <a href="/wiki/Miracle_play" class="mw-redirect" title="Miracle play">miracle plays</a> for the people. <a href="/wiki/Anna_Bijns" title="Anna Bijns">Anna Bijns</a> (c. 1494–1575) is an important figure who wrote in <a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">modern Dutch</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Reformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant Reformation">Reformation</a> appeared in Dutch literature in a collection of Psalm translations in 1540 and in a 1566 New Testament translation in Dutch. The greatest of all Dutch writers is widely considered to be the playwright and poet <a href="/wiki/Joost_van_den_Vondel" title="Joost van den Vondel">Joost van den Vondel</a> (1587–1679). </p><p>During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, the Low Countries had gone through major political upheaval. The most prominent writers were <a href="/wiki/Willem_Bilderdijk" title="Willem Bilderdijk">Willem Bilderdijk</a> (1756–1831), <a href="/wiki/Hi%C3%ABronymus_van_Alphen" class="mw-redirect" title="Hiëronymus van Alphen">Hiëronymus van Alphen</a> (1746–1803), and <a href="/wiki/Rhijnvis_Feith" title="Rhijnvis Feith">Rhijnvis Feith</a> (1753–1824). <a href="/wiki/Piet_Paaltjens" title="Piet Paaltjens">Piet Paaltjens</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pseudonym" title="Pseudonym">ps.</a> of François Haverschmidt, 1835–1894) represents in Dutch the Romantic vein exemplified by <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Heine" title="Heinrich Heine">Heine</a>. A new movement called <i>Tachtigers</i> or "Movement of (Eighteen-)Eighty", after the decade in which it arose. One of the most important historical writers of the 20th century was <a href="/wiki/Johan_Huizinga" title="Johan Huizinga">Johan Huizinga</a>, who is known abroad and translated in different languages and included in several <a href="/wiki/Great_books" class="mw-redirect" title="Great books">great books</a> lists. During the 1920s, a new group of writers who distanced themselves from the ornate style of the Movement of 1880 arose, led by <a href="/wiki/Nescio" title="Nescio">Nescio</a> (J.H.F. Grönloh, 1882–1961). During WW II, influential writers included <a href="/wiki/Anne_Frank" title="Anne Frank">Anne Frank</a> (whose <a href="/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl" title="The Diary of a Young Girl">diary</a> was published posthumously) died in a German <a href="/wiki/Concentration_camp" title="Concentration camp">concentration camp</a>, as did <a href="/wiki/Crime_fiction" title="Crime fiction">crime fiction</a> writer, <a href="/wiki/Journalist" title="Journalist">journalist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Poet" title="Poet">poet</a> <a href="/wiki/Jan_Campert" title="Jan Campert">Jan Campert</a>. Writers who had lived through the atrocities of the Second World War reflected in their works on the changed perception of reality. Obviously many looked back on their experiences the way <a href="/wiki/Anne_Frank" title="Anne Frank">Anne Frank</a> had done in her Diary, this was the case with <i>Het bittere kruid</i> (The bitter herb) of <a href="/wiki/Marga_Minco" title="Marga Minco">Marga Minco</a>, and <i>Kinderjaren</i> (Childhood) of <a href="/wiki/Jona_Oberski" title="Jona Oberski">Jona Oberski</a>. The renewal, which in literary history would be described as "ontluisterend realisme" (shocking realism), is mainly associated with three authors: <a href="/wiki/Gerard_Reve" title="Gerard Reve">Gerard Reve</a>, <a href="/wiki/W.F._Hermans" class="mw-redirect" title="W.F. Hermans">W.F. Hermans</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anna_Blaman" title="Anna Blaman">Anna Blaman</a>. Reve and Hermans are often cited together with <a href="/wiki/Harry_Mulisch" title="Harry Mulisch">Harry Mulisch</a> as the "Big Three" of Dutch postwar literature. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Old_Dutch_texts_(500–1150)"><span id="Old_Dutch_texts_.28500.E2.80.931150.29"></span>Old Dutch texts (500–1150)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dutch-language_literature&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Old Dutch texts (500–1150)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Old_Dutch" title="Old Dutch">Old Dutch</a></div> <p>Around 500 AD, <a href="/wiki/Old_Frankish" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Frankish">Old Frankish</a> evolved to <a href="/wiki/Old_Dutch" title="Old Dutch">Old Dutch</a>, a <a href="/wiki/West_Germanic_languages" title="West Germanic languages">West Germanic language</a> that was spoken by the <a href="/wiki/Franks" title="Franks">Franks</a> and to a lesser extent by people living in the <a href="/wiki/Frankish_empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Frankish empire">regions conquered by the Franks</a>. Until the end of the 11th century, Dutch literature - like literature elsewhere in Europe - was almost entirely <a href="/wiki/Speech_communication" class="mw-redirect" title="Speech communication">oral</a> and in the form of <a href="/wiki/Poetry" title="Poetry">poetry</a>, as this helped <a href="/wiki/Troubadour" title="Troubadour">troubadours</a> remembering and reciting their texts. Scientific and religious texts were written in <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> and as a consequence most texts written in the Netherlands were written in Latin rather than Old Dutch. Extant Dutch texts from this period are rare. </p><p>In the earliest stages of the Dutch language, a considerable degree of mutual intelligibility with most other West Germanic dialects was present, and some fragments and authors can be claimed by both Dutch and <a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">German</a> literature. Examples include the 10th-century <i><a href="/wiki/Wachtendonck_Psalms" title="Wachtendonck Psalms">Wachtendonck Psalms</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/West_Low_Franconian" class="mw-redirect" title="West Low Franconian">West Low Franconian</a> translation of some of the <a href="/wiki/Psalms" title="Psalms">Psalms</a> on the threshold of what is considered Dutch, and the 12th-century <a href="/wiki/County_of_Loon" title="County of Loon">County of Loon</a> poet <a href="/wiki/Henric_van_Veldeke" class="mw-redirect" title="Henric van Veldeke">Henric van Veldeke</a> (1150 – after 1184). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Leiden_Willeram">The Leiden Willeram</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dutch-language_literature&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The Leiden Willeram"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i><a href="/wiki/Leiden_Willeram" title="Leiden Willeram">Leiden Willeram</a></i> is the name given to a manuscript containing a Low Franconian version of the Old High German commentary on <a href="/wiki/Song_of_Solomon" class="mw-redirect" title="Song of Solomon">Song of Solomon</a> by the German abbot <a href="/wiki/Williram_of_Ebersberg" title="Williram of Ebersberg">Williram of Ebersberg</a> (ultimately by <a href="/wiki/Isidore_of_Seville" title="Isidore of Seville">Isidore of Seville</a>). Until recently, based on its orthography and phonology the text of this manuscript was believed by most scholars to be Middle Franconian, that is Old High German, with some Limburgic or otherwise Franconian admixtures. But in 1974, the German philologist <a href="/w/index.php?title=Willy_Sanders&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Willy Sanders (page does not exist)">Willy Sanders</a> proved in his study <i>Der Leidener Willeram</i> that the text actually represents an imperfect attempt by a scribe from the northwestern coastal area of the Low Countries to translate the <a href="/wiki/East_Franconian" class="mw-redirect" title="East Franconian">East Franconian</a> original into his local vernacular. The text contains many Old Dutch words not known in Old High German, as well as mistranslated words caused by the scribe's unfamiliarity with some Old High German words in the original he translated, and a confused orthography heavily influenced by the Old High German original. For instance, the grapheme <z> is used after the High German tradition where it represents Germanic <i>t</i> shifted to <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ts/</span>. Sanders also proved that the manuscript, now in the University Library of <a href="/wiki/Leiden_University" title="Leiden University">Leiden University</a>, was written at the end of the 11th century in the Abbey of <a href="/wiki/Egmond_Abbey" title="Egmond Abbey">Egmond</a> in modern North Holland, whence the manuscript's other name <i>Egmond Willeram</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hebban_olla_vogala">Hebban olla vogala</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dutch-language_literature&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Hebban olla vogala"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The oldest known poetry was written by a West-Flemish <a href="/wiki/Monk" title="Monk">monk</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Convent" title="Convent">convent</a> in <a href="/wiki/Rochester,_Kent" title="Rochester, Kent">Rochester</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, around 1100: <i><a href="/wiki/Hebban_olla_vogala" title="Hebban olla vogala">hebban olla vogala nestas hagunnan hinase hic enda thu wat unbidan we nu</a></i> ("All birds have started making nests, except me and you, what are we waiting for"). According to professor <a href="/w/index.php?title=Luc_de_Grauwe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Luc de Grauwe (page does not exist)">Luc de Grauwe</a> the text could equally well be <a href="/wiki/Old_English" title="Old English">Old English</a>, more specifically <a href="/wiki/Kentish_dialect_(Old_English)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kentish dialect (Old English)">Old Kentish</a>, though there is no consensus on this hypothesis. At that time, <a href="/wiki/Old_Dutch" title="Old Dutch">Old (West) Dutch</a> and Old English were very similar. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Rhinelandic_Rhyming_Bible">The Rhinelandic Rhyming Bible</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dutch-language_literature&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Rhinelandic Rhyming Bible"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Another important source for Old Dutch is the so-called <a href="/wiki/Rhinelandic_Rhyming_Bible" title="Rhinelandic Rhyming Bible">Rhinelandic Rhyming Bible</a> (Dutch: <i>Rijnlandse Rijmbijbel</i> and German: <i>Rheinische Reimbibel</i>). This is a verse translation of biblical histories, attested only in a series of fragments, which was composed in a mixed dialect containing <a href="/wiki/Low_German" title="Low German">Low German</a>, Old Dutch and High German (Rhine-Franconian) elements.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was likely composed in north-west Germany in the early 12th century, possibly in <a href="/wiki/Werden_Abbey" title="Werden Abbey">Werden Abbey</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Essen" title="Essen">Essen</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Middle_Dutch_literature_(1150–1500)"><span id="Middle_Dutch_literature_.281150.E2.80.931500.29"></span>Middle Dutch literature (1150–1500)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dutch-language_literature&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Middle Dutch literature (1150–1500)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Medieval_Dutch_literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Medieval Dutch literature">Medieval Dutch literature</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Middle_Dutch" title="Middle Dutch">Middle Dutch</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dutch_folklore" class="mw-redirect" title="Dutch folklore">Dutch folklore</a></div> <p>In the 12th and 13th century, writers starting writing <a href="/wiki/Romance_(heroic_literature)" class="mw-redirect" title="Romance (heroic literature)">chivalric romances</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hagiography" title="Hagiography">hagiographies</a> (i.e. stories about the lives of saints) for paying noblemen. From the 13th century, literature became more didactic and developed a proto-national character. The primary audience was no longer the nobility, but the bourgeoisie. The growing importance of the Southern Low Countries resulted in most works being written in <a href="/wiki/Brabantian_dialect" class="mw-redirect" title="Brabantian dialect">Brabant</a>, <a href="/wiki/Flanders" title="Flanders">Flanders</a> and <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Limburg" title="Duchy of Limburg">Limburg</a>. </p><p>In the first stages of Dutch literature, poetry was the predominant form of literary expression. It was both in the <a href="/wiki/Low_Countries" title="Low Countries">Low Countries</a> and the rest of <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a> that <a href="/wiki/Courtly_romance" class="mw-redirect" title="Courtly romance">courtly romance</a> and <a href="/wiki/Courtly_love" title="Courtly love">poetry</a> were popular <a href="/wiki/Literary_genre" title="Literary genre">literary genres</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>. One <i><a href="/wiki/Minnesang" title="Minnesang">Minnesanger</a></i> was the aforementioned Van Veldeke, the first Dutch-language writer known by name, who also wrote <a href="/wiki/Epic_poetry" title="Epic poetry">epic poetry</a> and hagiographies.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Chivalry" title="Chivalry">chivalric</a> romance was a popular genre as well, often featuring <a href="/wiki/King_Arthur" title="King Arthur">King Arthur</a> or <a href="/wiki/Charlemagne" title="Charlemagne">Charlemagne</a> as <a href="/wiki/Protagonist" title="Protagonist">protagonist</a>. </p><p>As the political and cultural emphasis at the time lay in the southern provinces, most of the works handed down from the early Middle Ages were written in southern Low Franconian dialects such as <a href="/wiki/Limburgish_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Limburgish language">Limburgish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Flemish_dialects" title="Flemish dialects">Flemish</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brabantic" class="mw-redirect" title="Brabantic">Brabantic</a>. The first Dutch language writer known by name is Van Veldeke, who wrote courtly love poetry, and epics. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Beatrice_of_Nazareth" title="Beatrice of Nazareth">Beatrice of Nazareth</a> (1200–1268) was the first known prose writer in the Dutch language, the author of the <i>Seven Ways of Holy Love</i>. The <a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a> <a href="/wiki/Friar" title="Friar">friar</a> Jan van Ruusbroec (better known in English as the <a href="/wiki/Beatification" title="Beatification">Blessed</a> <a href="/wiki/John_of_Ruysbroeck" class="mw-redirect" title="John of Ruysbroeck">John of Ruysbroeck</a>, 1293/4–1381) followed Beatrice in taking prose out of the economic and political realms and using it for literary purposes. He wrote sermons filled with <a href="/wiki/Mysticism" title="Mysticism">mystic</a> thought. </p><p>A number of the surviving Dutch language epic works, especially the <a href="/wiki/Romance_(heroic_literature)" class="mw-redirect" title="Romance (heroic literature)">courtly romances</a>, were copies from or expansions of earlier German or <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> efforts, but there are examples of truly original works (such as the anonymous <i><a href="/wiki/Elegast" title="Elegast">Karel ende Elegast</a></i>) and even Dutch-language works that formed the basis for version in other languages (such as the morality play <i><a href="/wiki/Elckerlijc" title="Elckerlijc">Elckerlijc</a></i> that formed the basis for <i><a href="/wiki/Everyman_(15th-century_play)" title="Everyman (15th-century play)">Everyman</a></i>). Another genre popular in the Middle Ages was the <a href="/wiki/Fable" title="Fable">fable</a>, and the most elaborate fable produced by Dutch literature was an expanded adaptation of the <a href="/wiki/Reynard_the_Fox" title="Reynard the Fox">Reynard the Fox</a> tale, <i>Vanden vos Reynaerde</i> ("Of Reynard the Fox"), written around 1250 by a person only identified as Willem. </p><p>Until the 13th century, the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Dutch_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Middle Dutch language">Middle Dutch language</a> output mainly serviced the aristocratic and monastic orders, recording the traditions of <a href="/wiki/Chivalry" title="Chivalry">chivalry</a> and of religion, but scarcely addressed the bulk of the population. With the close of the 13th century a change appeared in Dutch literature. The Flemish and Hollandic towns began to prosper and to assert their <a href="/wiki/Commerce" title="Commerce">commercial</a> supremacy over the <a href="/wiki/North_Sea" title="North Sea">North Sea</a>, and these cities won privileges amounting almost to political independence. With this liberty there arose a new sort of literary expression. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:VanMaerlant.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/VanMaerlant.jpg/220px-VanMaerlant.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="215" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/VanMaerlant.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="241" data-file-height="235" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Jacob_van_Maerlant" title="Jacob van Maerlant">Jacob van Maerlant</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The most important exponent of this new development was <a href="/wiki/Jacob_van_Maerlant" title="Jacob van Maerlant">Jacob van Maerlant</a> (~1235–~1300), a <a href="/wiki/County_of_Flanders" title="County of Flanders">Flemish</a> <a href="/wiki/Scholar" title="Scholar">scholar</a> who worked in <a href="/wiki/Holland" title="Holland">Holland</a> for part of his career. His key works are <i>Der Naturen Bloeme</i> ("The Flower of Nature", c. 1263), a collection of <a href="/wiki/Morality" title="Morality">moral</a> and <a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">satirical</a> addresses to all <a href="/wiki/Social_class" title="Social class">classes</a> of <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a>, and <i>De Spieghel Historiael</i> ("The Mirror of History", c. 1284). Jacob van Maerlant straddles the cultural divide between the northern and southern provinces. Up until now, the northern provinces had produced little of worth, and this would largely remain the case until the fall of <a href="/wiki/Antwerp" title="Antwerp">Antwerp</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Eighty_Years%27_War" title="Eighty Years' War">Eighty Years' War</a> shifted focus to <a href="/wiki/Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a>. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of Dutch poetry", "a title he merits for productivity if for no other reason."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Around 1440, literary <a href="/wiki/Guild" title="Guild">guilds</a> called <i>rederijkerskamers</i> ("<a href="/wiki/Chamber_of_rhetoric" title="Chamber of rhetoric">Chambers of Rhetoric</a>") arose. These guilds, whose members called themselves <i><a href="/wiki/Rederijkers" class="mw-redirect" title="Rederijkers">Rederijkers</a></i> or "Rhetoricians", were in almost all cases <a href="/wiki/Middle-class" class="mw-redirect" title="Middle-class">middle-class</a> in tone, and opposed to <a href="/wiki/Aristocracy" title="Aristocracy">aristocratic</a> ideas and tendencies in thought. Of these chambers, the earliest were almost entirely engaged in preparing <a href="/wiki/Mystery_play" title="Mystery play">mysteries</a> and <a href="/wiki/Miracle_play" class="mw-redirect" title="Miracle play">miracle plays</a> for the people. Soon their influence grew until no <a href="/wiki/Festival" title="Festival">festival</a> or <a href="/wiki/Procession" title="Procession">procession</a> could take place in a town unless the Chamber <a href="/wiki/Patron" class="mw-redirect" title="Patron">patronized</a> it. The Chambers' plays very rarely dealt with <a href="/wiki/History" title="History">historical</a> or even <a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Biblical</a> personages, but entirely with allegorical and moral abstractions and were didactic in nature. The most notable examples of Rederijker theatre include <i>Mariken van Nieumeghen</i> ("Mary of <a href="/wiki/Nijmegen" title="Nijmegen">Nijmegen</a>") and <i><a href="/wiki/Elckerlijc" title="Elckerlijc">Elckerlijc</a></i> (which was translated into <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> as <i><a href="/wiki/Everyman" title="Everyman">Everyman</a></i>). </p><p>At the close of the early period, <a href="/wiki/Anna_Bijns" title="Anna Bijns">Anna Bijns</a> (c. 1494–1575) stands as a transitional figure. Bijns was an <a href="/wiki/Antwerp" title="Antwerp">Antwerp</a> <a href="/wiki/Schoolmaster" title="Schoolmaster">schoolmistress</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lay_brother" title="Lay brother">lay nun</a> whose main targets were the <a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">faith</a> and character of <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther" title="Martin Luther">Luther</a>. In her first volume of poetry (1528) the <a href="/wiki/Lutheran" class="mw-redirect" title="Lutheran">Lutherans</a> are scarcely mentioned and focus lies on her personal experience of faith, but in that of 1538 one finds sharp words for the Lutherans on every page. With the writings of Bijns, the period of <a href="/wiki/Middle_Dutch_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Middle Dutch language">Middle Dutch</a> closes and the <a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">modern Dutch</a> begins (see also <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Dutch_language" title="History of the Dutch language">History of the Dutch language</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Renaissance_and_the_Golden_Age_(1550–1670)"><span id="Renaissance_and_the_Golden_Age_.281550.E2.80.931670.29"></span>Renaissance and the Golden Age (1550–1670)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dutch-language_literature&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Renaissance and the Golden Age (1550–1670)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Renaissance_and_Golden_Age_literature" title="Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature">Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature</a></div> <p>The first ripples of the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Reformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant Reformation">Reformation</a> appeared in Dutch literature in a collection of Psalm translations printed at Antwerp in 1540 under the title of <i>Souter-Liedekens</i> ("<a href="/wiki/Psalter" title="Psalter">Psalter</a> Songs"). For the <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/congregation" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:congregation">congregations</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jan_Utenhove" title="Jan Utenhove">Jan Utenhove</a> printed a volume of Psalms in 1566 and made the first attempt at a New Testament translation in Dutch. Very different in tone were the battle songs sung by the Reformers, the <a href="/wiki/Les_Gueux" class="mw-redirect" title="Les Gueux">Gueux</a> songs. The famous <a href="/wiki/Songbook" class="mw-redirect" title="Songbook">songbook</a> of 1588, <i>Een Geusen Lied Boecxken</i> ("A Gueux Songbook"), was full of heroic sentiment. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Philips_van_Marnix,_lord_of_Sint-Aldegonde" class="mw-redirect" title="Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde">Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde</a> (1538–1598) was one of the leading spirits in the <a href="/wiki/Eighty_Years%27_War" title="Eighty Years' War">war of Dutch independence</a> and an intimate friend of <a href="/wiki/William_I,_Prince_of_Orange" class="mw-redirect" title="William I, Prince of Orange">William I, Prince of Orange</a>. The lyrics to <i><a href="/wiki/Wilhelmus" title="Wilhelmus">Wilhelmus van Nassouwe</a></i>, the current Dutch <a href="/wiki/National_anthem" title="National anthem">national anthem</a> and an <a href="/wiki/Apologetics" title="Apologetics">apology</a> of the Prince's actions composed around 1568, are <a href="/wiki/Ascription" class="mw-redirect" title="Ascription">ascribed</a> to Marnix. His chief work was 1569's <i>Biëncorf der Heilige Roomsche Kercke</i> (Beehive of the Holy Roman Church), a <a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">satire</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_church" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic church">Roman Catholic church</a>. Marnix occupied the last years of his life in preparing a Dutch version of the <a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a>, translated directly from the original; at his death only <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Genesis" title="Book of Genesis">Genesis</a> was completed. In 1619 the <a href="/wiki/Synod_of_Dort" title="Synod of Dort">Synod of Dort</a> placed the unfinished work in the hands of four <a href="/wiki/Theologian" class="mw-redirect" title="Theologian">theologians</a>, who completed it. This translation formed the starting point for the <i><a href="/wiki/Statenvertaling" title="Statenvertaling">Statenvertaling</a></i> or "States' Translation", a full Bible translation into Dutch ordered by the Synod. In order to be intelligible to all Dutchmen, the Statenvertaling included elements of all main Dutch dialects and so became the cornerstone of modern standard Dutch. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Dirck_Volckertszoon_Coornhert" class="mw-redirect" title="Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert">Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert</a> (1522–1590) was the Low Countries' first truly humanist writer. In 1586 he produced his original masterpiece, the <i>Zedekunst</i> ("Art of <a href="/wiki/Ethics" title="Ethics">Ethics</a>"), a philosophical <a href="/wiki/Treatise" title="Treatise">treatise</a> in prose. Coornhert's <a href="/wiki/Humanism" title="Humanism">humanism</a> unites the <a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a>, <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius" title="Marcus Aurelius">Marcus Aurelius</a> in one grand system of ethics. </p><p>By this time, the religious and political upheaval in the Low Countries had resulted in the 1581 <a href="/wiki/Act_of_Abjuration" title="Act of Abjuration">Act of Abjuration</a>, deposing their king, <a href="/wiki/Philip_II_of_Spain" title="Philip II of Spain">Philip II of Spain</a> and the subsequent <a href="/wiki/Eighty_Years%27_War" title="Eighty Years' War">eighty years' struggle to confirm that declaration</a>. As a result, the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Netherlands" title="Spanish Netherlands">southern provinces</a>, some of which had supported the declaration, were separated from the <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Republic" title="Dutch Republic">northern provinces</a> as they remained under Spanish rule. Ultimately, this would result in the present-day states of <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a> (south) and the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a> (north). After Antwerp <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Antwerp" title="Fall of Antwerp">had fallen</a> into Spanish hands in 1585, Amsterdam became the centre of all literary enterprise as all <a href="/wiki/Intelligentsia" title="Intelligentsia">intelligentsia</a> fled towards the north. This meant both a cultural renaissance in the north and a sharp decline in the south at the same time, regarding the level of Dutch literature practised. The north received a cultural and intellectual boost whereas in the south, Dutch was largely replaced by <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> as the language of culture and administration. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Archive-ugent-be-4C132E7E-EC1A-11E1-ABD8-B7558375B242_DS-22_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Archive-ugent-be-4C132E7E-EC1A-11E1-ABD8-B7558375B242_DS-22_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Archive-ugent-be-4C132E7E-EC1A-11E1-ABD8-B7558375B242_DS-22_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Archive-ugent-be-4C132E7E-EC1A-11E1-ABD8-B7558375B242_DS-22_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="302" data-file-height="403" /></a><figcaption>Poem written by Joost van den Vondel, 17th century.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PCHooft.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/PCHooft.jpg/220px-PCHooft.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="285" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/PCHooft.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="245" data-file-height="317" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/P.C._Hooft" class="mw-redirect" title="P.C. Hooft">P.C. Hooft</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In Amsterdam, a circle of poets and playwrights formed around <a href="/wiki/Maecenas" class="mw-redirect" title="Maecenas">Maecenas</a>-like figure <a href="/wiki/Roemer_Visscher" title="Roemer Visscher">Roemer Visscher</a> (1547–1620), which would eventually be known as the <a href="/wiki/Muiderkring" title="Muiderkring">Muiderkring</a> ("Circle of <a href="/wiki/Muiden" title="Muiden">Muiden</a>") after the residence of its most prominent member, <a href="/wiki/Pieter_Corneliszoon_Hooft" title="Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft">Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft</a> (1581–1647), writer of pastoral and lyric poetry and history. From 1628 to 1642 he wrote his masterpiece, the <i>Nederduytsche Historiën</i> ("History of the Netherlands"). Hooft was a purist in style, modelling himself (in prose) after <a href="/wiki/Publius_Cornelius_Tacitus" class="mw-redirect" title="Publius Cornelius Tacitus">Tacitus</a>. He is considered one of the greatest historians, not merely of the Low Countries, but of Europe. His influence in standardising the language of his country is considered enormous, as many writers conformed themselves to the stylistic and grammatical model Hooft devised. Other members of his Circle included Visscher's daughter <a href="/wiki/Maria_Tesselschade_Visscher" title="Maria Tesselschade Visscher">Tesselschade</a> (1594–1649, <a href="/wiki/Lyric_poem" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyric poem">lyric poetry</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Gerbrand_Adriaensz_Bredero" class="mw-redirect" title="Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero">Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero</a> (1585–1618, romantic plays and comedies), whose best-known piece is <i>De Spaansche Brabanber Jerolimo</i> ("Jerolimo, the Spanish Brabanter"), a satire upon the <a href="/wiki/Refugee" title="Refugee">refugees</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Netherlands" title="Spanish Netherlands">south</a>. A versatile poet loosely associated with the Circle of Muiden was the <a href="/wiki/Diplomat" title="Diplomat">diplomat</a> <a href="/wiki/Constantijn_Huygens" title="Constantijn Huygens">Constantijn Huygens</a> (1596–1687), perhaps best known for his witty <a href="/wiki/Epigram" title="Epigram">epigrams</a>. Huygens' style was bright and vivacious and he was a consummate artist in metrical form. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vondel.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Vondel.jpg/220px-Vondel.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="265" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Vondel.jpg/330px-Vondel.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Vondel.jpg 2x" data-file-width="375" data-file-height="451" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Joost_van_den_Vondel" title="Joost van den Vondel">Joost van den Vondel</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The greatest of all Dutch writers is widely considered to be the playwright and poet <a href="/wiki/Joost_van_den_Vondel" title="Joost van den Vondel">Joost van den Vondel</a> (1587–1679), who mainly wrote historical and biblical tragedies. In 1625 he published what seemed an innocent study from the antique, his tragedy of <i>Palamedes, or Murdered Innocence</i>, but which was a thinly veiled tribute to <a href="/wiki/Johan_van_Oldebarnevelt" class="mw-redirect" title="Johan van Oldebarnevelt">Johan van Oldebarnevelt</a>, the Republic's <a href="/wiki/Grand_Pensionary" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Pensionary">Grand Pensionary</a>, who had been executed in 1618 by order of <a href="/wiki/Stadtholder" title="Stadtholder">stadtholder</a> <a href="/wiki/Maurice_of_Nassau,_Prince_of_Orange" class="mw-redirect" title="Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange">Maurice of Nassau</a>. Vondel became in a week the most famous writer in the Netherlands and for the next twelve years, until the accession of stadtholder <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Henry,_Prince_of_Orange" title="Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange">Frederick Henry</a>, had to maintain a hand-to-hand combat with the <a href="/wiki/Calvinist" class="mw-redirect" title="Calvinist">Calvinists</a> of Dordrecht. In 1637 Vondel wrote of his most popular works on the occasion of the opening of a new Amsterdam theatre: <i><a href="/wiki/Gijsbrecht_van_Aemstel_(play)" title="Gijsbrecht van Aemstel (play)">Gijsbrecht van Aemstel</a></i>, a play on a local historical figure loosely modeled on material from the <i><a href="/wiki/Aeneid" title="Aeneid">Aeneid</a></i> that is still staged to this day. In 1654 Vondel brought out what most consider the best of all his works, the tragedy of <i>Lucifer</i>, from which it is said <a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">Milton</a> drew inspiration. Vondel is considered the typical example of Dutch creativity and imagination at their highest development. </p><p>A similar school to that in Amsterdam arose in <a href="/wiki/Middelburg,_Zeeland" title="Middelburg, Zeeland">Middelburg</a>, the capital of <a href="/wiki/Zeeland" title="Zeeland">Zeeland</a>, led by <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Cats" title="Jacob Cats">Jacob Cats</a> (1577–1660). In Cats the genuine Dutch habit of thought, the utilitarian and didactic spirit reached its <a href="/wiki/Zenith" title="Zenith">zenith</a> of fluency and popularity. During early middle life he produced the most important of his writings, his didactic poems, the <i>Maechdenplicht</i> ("Duty of Maidens") and the <i>Sinne- en Minnebeelden</i> ("Images of Allegory and Love"). In 1624 he moved from Middelburg to Dordrecht, where he soon after published his ethical work called <i>Houwelick</i> ("Marriage"); and this was followed by an entire series of moral pieces. Cats is considered somewhat dull and prosaic by some, yet his popularity with the middle classes in the Netherlands has always been immense. </p><p>As with contemporary <a href="/wiki/English_literature" title="English literature">English literature</a>, the predominant forms of literature produced in this era were <a href="/wiki/Poetry" title="Poetry">poetry</a> and <a href="/wiki/Drama" title="Drama">drama</a>, Coornhert (<a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a>) and Hooft (<a href="/wiki/History" title="History">history</a>) being the main exceptions. In another prose genre, <a href="/wiki/Johan_van_Heemskerk" title="Johan van Heemskerk">Johan van Heemskerk</a> (1597–1656) was the leading man of a new vogue blown over from <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>: the <a href="/wiki/Romance_novel" title="Romance novel">romance</a>. In 1637 he produced his <i>Batavische Arcadia</i> ("<a href="/wiki/Batavia,_Dutch_East_Indies" title="Batavia, Dutch East Indies">Batavian</a> <a href="/wiki/Arcadia_(paradise)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arcadia (paradise)">Arcadia</a>"), the first original Dutch romance, in its day extremely popular and widely imitated. Another exponent of this genre was <a href="/wiki/Nikolaes_Heinsius_the_Younger" class="mw-redirect" title="Nikolaes Heinsius the Younger">Nikolaes Heinsius the Younger</a>, whose <i>Mirandor</i> (1695) resembles but precedes <a href="/wiki/Alain-Ren%C3%A9_Lesage" title="Alain-René Lesage">Lesage</a>'s <i>Gil Blas</i>. </p><p>The period from 1600 to 1650 was the blossoming time in Dutch literature. During this period the names of greatest genius were first made known to the public and the vigour and grace of literary expression reached their highest development. It happened, however, that three men of particularly commanding talent survived to an extreme old age, and under the shadow of Vondel, Cats and Huygens sprang up a new generation which sustained the great tradition until around 1670, when decline set in sharply. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1670–1795"><span id="1670.E2.80.931795"></span>1670–1795</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dutch-language_literature&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1670–1795"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the great division of the <a href="/wiki/Low_Countries" title="Low Countries">Low Countries</a> into the <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Republic" title="Dutch Republic">Dutch Republic</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Netherlands" title="Spanish Netherlands">Spanish Netherlands</a> formalised in the <a href="/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia" title="Peace of Westphalia">Peace of Westphalia</a> (1648), "Dutch literature" almost exclusively meant "<a href="/wiki/Dutch_republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Dutch republic">Republican</a> literature", as the <a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch language</a> fell into disfavour with the southern rulers. A notable exception was the <a href="/wiki/Dunkirk" title="Dunkirk">Dunkirk</a> writer <a href="/wiki/Michiel_de_Swaen" title="Michiel de Swaen">Michiel de Swaen</a> (1654–1707), who wrote comedies, moralities and biblical poetry. During his lifetime (1678) the <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spanish</a> lost Dunkirk to the French and so De Swaen is also the first <a href="/wiki/French_Flanders" title="French Flanders">French-Flemish</a> writer of importance. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Elizabeth_Wolff_and_Agatha_Deken.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Elizabeth_Wolff_and_Agatha_Deken.png/220px-Elizabeth_Wolff_and_Agatha_Deken.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="361" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Elizabeth_Wolff_and_Agatha_Deken.png/330px-Elizabeth_Wolff_and_Agatha_Deken.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Elizabeth_Wolff_and_Agatha_Deken.png/440px-Elizabeth_Wolff_and_Agatha_Deken.png 2x" data-file-width="2455" data-file-height="4028" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Betje_Wolff" title="Betje Wolff">Betje Wolff</a> (top) and <a href="/wiki/Aagje_Deken" title="Aagje Deken">Aagje Deken</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Playwright" title="Playwright">playwrights</a> of the time followed the French model of <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Corneille" title="Pierre Corneille">Corneille</a> and others, led by <a href="/wiki/Andries_Pels" title="Andries Pels">Andries Pels</a> (d. 1681). A well-known poet of this period was <a href="/wiki/Jan_Luyken" title="Jan Luyken">Jan Luyken</a> (1649–1712). A writer who revived especially an interest in literature was <a href="/wiki/Justus_van_Effen" title="Justus van Effen">Justus van Effen</a> (1684–1735). He was born at <a href="/wiki/Utrecht_(city)" class="mw-redirect" title="Utrecht (city)">Utrecht</a> and was influenced by <a href="/wiki/Huguenot" class="mw-redirect" title="Huguenot">Huguenot</a> émigrés who had fled for the Republic after the <a href="/wiki/Revocation_of_the_Edict_of_Nantes" class="mw-redirect" title="Revocation of the Edict of Nantes">revocation of the Edict of Nantes</a> in 1685. Van Effen wrote in French for a great part of his literary career but, influenced by a visit to <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> where the <i><a href="/wiki/Tatler_(1709)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tatler (1709)">Tatler</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Spectator_(1711)" title="The Spectator (1711)">Spectator</a></i> were on the rise, from 1731 began to publish his <i><a href="/wiki/Hollandsche_Spectator" title="Hollandsche Spectator">Hollandsche Spectator</a></i> ("Dutch Spectator") <a href="/wiki/Magazine" title="Magazine">magazine</a>, which his death in 1735 soon brought to a close. Still, what he composed during the last four years of his life is considered by many to constitute the most valuable legacy to Dutch literature that the middle of the 18th century left behind. </p><p>The year 1777 is considered a turning point in the history of letters in the Netherlands. It was in that year that <a href="/wiki/Betje_Wolff" title="Betje Wolff">Elizabeth “Betje” Wolff</a> (1738–1804), a <a href="/wiki/Widow" title="Widow">widow</a> lady in <a href="/wiki/Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a>, persuaded her friend <a href="/wiki/Aagje_Deken" title="Aagje Deken">Agatha “Aagje” Deken</a> (1741–1804), a poor but intelligent <a href="/wiki/Governess" title="Governess">governess</a>, to throw up her situation and live with her. For nearly thirty years these women continued together, writing in combination. In 1782 the ladies, inspired partly by <a href="/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe" title="Johann Wolfgang von Goethe">Goethe</a>, published their first novel, <i>Sara Burgerhart</i>, which was enthusiastically received. Two further, less successful novels appeared before Wolff and Deken had to flee France, their country of residence, due to persecution by the <a href="/wiki/French_Directory" title="French Directory">Directory</a>. </p><p>The last years of the 18th century were marked by a general revival of intellectual force. The <a href="/wiki/Romanticism" title="Romanticism">romantic movement</a> in <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a> made itself deeply felt in all branches of Dutch literature and German <a href="/wiki/Lyricism" title="Lyricism">lyricism</a> took the place hitherto held by French <a href="/wiki/Classicism" title="Classicism">classicism</a>, in spite of the country falling to French expansionism (see also <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Netherlands#Batavian_revolution" title="History of the Netherlands">History of the Netherlands</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_19th_century">The 19th century</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dutch-language_literature&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: The 19th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Nineteenth-century_Dutch_literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Nineteenth-century Dutch literature">Nineteenth-century Dutch literature</a></div> <p>During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, the Low Countries had gone through major political upheaval. The <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Netherlands" title="Spanish Netherlands">Spanish Netherlands</a> had first become the <a href="/wiki/Austrian_Netherlands" title="Austrian Netherlands">Austrian Netherlands</a> before being <a href="/wiki/Annexation" title="Annexation">annexed</a> by France in 1795. The <a href="/wiki/Dutch_republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Dutch republic">Republic</a> saw a revolution inspired and backed by France that led to the <a href="/wiki/Batavian_Republic" title="Batavian Republic">Batavian Republic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Holland" title="Kingdom of Holland">Kingdom of Holland</a> <a href="/wiki/Vassal_state" title="Vassal state">vassal states</a> before actual French annexation in 1810. After <a href="/wiki/Napoleon_I_of_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Napoleon I of France">Napoleon</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo" title="Battle of Waterloo">downfall</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Netherlands" title="Southern Netherlands">Southern Netherlands</a> village of <a href="/wiki/Waterloo,_Belgium" title="Waterloo, Belgium">Waterloo</a>, the northern and southern provinces were briefly united as the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands" title="United Kingdom of the Netherlands">United Kingdom of the Netherlands</a>. This period lasted until 1830 only, when the southern provinces <a href="/wiki/Secession" title="Secession">seceded</a> to form <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>. It had little influence in literature, and in the new state of Belgium, the status of the Dutch language remained largely unchanged as all governmental and educational affairs were conducted in French. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Portret_van_Willem_Bilderdijk_Rijksmuseum_SK-A-1453.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Portret_van_Willem_Bilderdijk_Rijksmuseum_SK-A-1453.jpeg/170px-Portret_van_Willem_Bilderdijk_Rijksmuseum_SK-A-1453.jpeg" decoding="async" width="170" height="216" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Portret_van_Willem_Bilderdijk_Rijksmuseum_SK-A-1453.jpeg/255px-Portret_van_Willem_Bilderdijk_Rijksmuseum_SK-A-1453.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Portret_van_Willem_Bilderdijk_Rijksmuseum_SK-A-1453.jpeg/340px-Portret_van_Willem_Bilderdijk_Rijksmuseum_SK-A-1453.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="5008" data-file-height="6356" /></a><figcaption>Portrait of <a href="/wiki/Willem_Bilderdijk" title="Willem Bilderdijk">Willem Bilderdijk</a> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Howard_Hodges" title="Charles Howard Hodges">Charles Howard Hodges</a> from 1810</figcaption></figure> <p>Against this backdrop, the most prominent writer was <a href="/wiki/Willem_Bilderdijk" title="Willem Bilderdijk">Willem Bilderdijk</a> (1756–1831), a highly intellectual and intelligent but also eccentric man who lived a busy, eventful life, writing great quantities of verse. Bilderdijk had no time for the emerging new romantic style of poetry, but its fervour found its way into the Netherlands nevertheless, first of all in the person of <a href="/wiki/Hi%C3%ABronymus_van_Alphen" class="mw-redirect" title="Hiëronymus van Alphen">Hiëronymus van Alphen</a> (1746–1803), who today is best remembered for the verses he wrote for children. Van Alphen was an exponent of the more sentimental school along with <a href="/wiki/Rhijnvis_Feith" title="Rhijnvis Feith">Rhijnvis Feith</a> (1753–1824), whose romances are steeped in <a href="/wiki/Weltschmerz" title="Weltschmerz">Weltschmerz</a>. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Hendrik_Tollens" title="Hendrik Tollens">Hendrik Tollens</a> (1780–1856) some the power of Bilderdijk and the sweetness of Feith were combined. Tollens wrote nationalistic romances and lyrics celebrating the great deeds of <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Netherlands" title="History of the Netherlands">Dutch history</a> and today is best known for his poem "Wien Neêrlands Bloed" ("To Those in Whom Dutch Blood Flows"), which was the <a href="/wiki/Dutch_national_anthem" class="mw-redirect" title="Dutch national anthem">Dutch national anthem</a> until it was superseded in 1932 by <a href="/wiki/Philips_van_Marnix,_lord_of_Sint-Aldegonde" class="mw-redirect" title="Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde">Marnix'</a> "Wilhelmus". A poet of considerable talent, whose powers were awakened by personal intercourse with Tollens and his followers, was <a href="/w/index.php?title=A._C._W._Staring&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A. C. W. Staring (page does not exist)">A. C. W. Staring</a> (1767–1840). His poems are a blend of romanticism and <a href="/wiki/Rationalism" title="Rationalism">rationalism</a>. </p><p>The Dutch language of the north resisted the pressure of German from the outside and from within broke through its long stagnation and enriched itself, as a medium for literary expression, with a multitude of fresh and colloquial forms. At the same time, no very great genius arose in the Netherlands in any branch of literature. For the thirty or forty years preceding 1880 the course of literature in the Netherlands was smooth and even sluggish. The Dutch writers had slipped into a conventionality of treatment and a strict limitation of form from which even the most striking talents among them could scarcely escape. </p><p>Poetry and a large part of prose was dominated by the so-called school of ministers, as the leading writers all were or had been <a href="/wiki/Calvinist" class="mw-redirect" title="Calvinist">Calvinist</a> <a href="/wiki/Minister_(religion)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister (religion)">ministers</a>. As a result, many of their products emphasized Biblical and <a href="/wiki/Bourgeois" class="mw-redirect" title="Bourgeois">bourgeois</a> domestic values. A prime example is <a href="/wiki/Nicolaas_Beets" title="Nicolaas Beets">Nicolaas Beets</a> (1814–1903), who wrote large quantities of sermons and poetry under his own name but is chiefly remembered today for the humorous prose sketches of Dutch life in <i>Camera Obscura</i> (1839), which he wrote during his student days under the <a href="/wiki/Pseudonym" title="Pseudonym">pseudonym</a> of <a href="/wiki/Nicolaas_Beets" title="Nicolaas Beets">Hildebrand</a>. </p><p>A poet of power and promise was lost in the early death of <a href="/wiki/Petrus_Augustus_de_Genestet" class="mw-redirect" title="Petrus Augustus de Genestet">P.A. de Genestet</a> (1829–1861). His narrative poem "De Sint-Nicolaasavond" ("Eve of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Nicholas#Celebration_in_the_Netherlands" title="Saint Nicholas">Sinterklaas</a>") appeared in 1849. Although he left no large contemporary impression, <a href="/wiki/Piet_Paaltjens" title="Piet Paaltjens">Piet Paaltjens</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pseudonym" title="Pseudonym">ps.</a> of François Haverschmidt, 1835–1894) is considered one of the very few readable nineteenth-century poets, representing in Dutch the pure Romantic vein exemplified by <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Heine" title="Heinrich Heine">Heine</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Eduard_Douwes_Dekker_-_001.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Eduard_Douwes_Dekker_-_001.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="266" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="266" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Multatuli" title="Multatuli">Multatuli</a> (E. Douwes Dekker)</figcaption></figure> <p>Under the influence of romantic nationalism, writers in <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a> began to reconsider their Flemish heritage and move for a recognition of the Dutch language. <a href="/wiki/Charles_De_Coster" title="Charles De Coster">Charles De Coster</a> laid the foundations for a native Belgian literature by recounting the Flemish past in historic romances but wrote his works in <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>. <a href="/wiki/Hendrik_Conscience" title="Hendrik Conscience">Hendrik Conscience</a> (1812–1883) was the first to write about <a href="/wiki/Flanders" title="Flanders">Flemish</a> subjects in the Dutch language and so is considered the father of modern Flemish literature. In Flemish poetry, <a href="/wiki/Guido_Gezelle" title="Guido Gezelle">Guido Gezelle</a> (1830–1899) is an important figure. An <a href="/wiki/Ordained" class="mw-redirect" title="Ordained">ordained</a> <a href="/wiki/Journalist" title="Journalist">journalist</a>-cum-<a href="/wiki/Ethnology" title="Ethnology">ethnologist</a>, Gezelle celebrated his faith and his Flemish roots using an archaic vocabulary based on Medieval Flemish, somewhat to the detriment of readability. See also the article on <a href="/wiki/Flemish_literature" title="Flemish literature">Flemish literature</a>. </p><p>After the restoration in 1815 to the Dutch state of the <a href="/wiki/Dutch_East_Indies" title="Dutch East Indies">Dutch East Indies</a>, works of literature continued to be produced there. With the rise of social consciousness regarding the administration of the colonies and the treatment of their inhabitants, an influential voice rose from the Indies in the form of <a href="/wiki/Multatuli" title="Multatuli">Multatuli</a> (ps. of Eduard Douwes Dekker, 1820–1887), whose <i><a href="/wiki/Max_Havelaar" title="Max Havelaar">Max Havelaar</a></i> (1860) is a scathing indictment of colonial mismanagement and one of the few nineteenth-century prose works still widely considered readable today. </p><p>The principles of the 1830–1880 period were summed up in <a href="/wiki/Conrad_Busken-Huet" class="mw-redirect" title="Conrad Busken-Huet">Conrad Busken-Huet</a> (1826–1886), leading critic of the day; he had been during all those years the fearless and trusty watch-dog of Dutch letters as he understood them. He lived just long enough to become aware that a revolution was approaching, not to comprehend its character; but his accomplished fidelity to literary principle and his wide knowledge have been honoured even by the most bitter of the younger school. </p><p>In November 1881 <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Perk" title="Jacques Perk">Jacques Perk</a> (born 1860) died. He was no sooner dead, however, than his posthumous poems, and in particular a cycle of sonnets called <i>Mathilde</i>, were published (1882) and awakened extraordinary emotion. Perk had rejected all the formulas of rhetorical poetry, and had broken up the conventional rhythms. There had been heard no music like his in the Netherlands for two hundred years. A group of young men collected around his name and were joined by the poet-novelist-dramatist <a href="/wiki/Marcellus_Emants" title="Marcellus Emants">Marcellus Emants</a> (1848–1923). Emants had written a symbolical poem called "Lilith" in 1879 that had been stigmatised as audacious and meaningless; encouraged by the admiration of his juniors, Emants published in 1881 a treatise in which the first open attack was made on the old school. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Couperus.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Couperus.jpg" decoding="async" width="211" height="250" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="211" data-file-height="250" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Louis_Couperus" title="Louis Couperus">Louis Couperus</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The next appearance was that of <a href="/wiki/Willem_Kloos" title="Willem Kloos">Willem Kloos</a> (1857–1938), who had been the editor and intimate friend of Perk, and who now led the new movement. His violent attacks on recognized authority in aesthetics created a considerable scandal. For some time the new poets and critics found a great difficulty in being heard, but in 1884 they founded a review, <i>De Nieuwe Gids</i> ("The New Guide"), which was able to offer a direct challenge to the old guard's periodicals. The new movement was called <i>Tachtigers</i> or "Movement of (Eighteen-)Eighty", after the decade in which it arose. The <i>Tachtigers</i> insisted that style must match content, and that intimate and visceral emotions can only be expressed using an intimate and visceral writing style. Prime influences of the <i>Tachtigers</i> were <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">U.K.</a> poets such as <a href="/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley" title="Percy Bysshe Shelley">Shelley</a> and the French <a href="/wiki/Naturalism_(literature)" title="Naturalism (literature)">naturalists</a>. </p><p>Leading representatives of the <i>Tachtigers</i> are: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Willem_Kloos" title="Willem Kloos">Willem Kloos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Verwey" title="Albert Verwey">Albert Verwey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederik_van_Eeden" title="Frederik van Eeden">Frederik van Eeden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcellus_Emants" title="Marcellus Emants">Marcellus Emants</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lodewijk_van_Deyssel" title="Lodewijk van Deyssel">Lodewijk van Deyssel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herman_Gorter" title="Herman Gorter">Herman Gorter</a></li></ul> <p>Around the same time, <a href="/wiki/Louis_Couperus" title="Louis Couperus">Louis Couperus</a> (1863–1923) made his appearance. His boyhood years were spent in <a href="/wiki/Java_(island)" class="mw-redirect" title="Java (island)">Java</a>, and he had preserved in all his nature a certain <a href="/wiki/Tropics" title="Tropics">tropical</a> magnificence. His first literary efforts were lyrics in the <i>Tachtigers</i> style, but Couperus proved far more important and durable as a novelist. In 1891 he published <i>Noodlot</i>, which was translated into <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> as <i>Footsteps of Fate</i> and which was greatly admired by <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a>. Couperus continued to pour out one important novel after another until his death in 1923. Another talent for prose was revealed by <a href="/wiki/Frederik_van_Eeden" title="Frederik van Eeden">Frederik van Eeden</a> (1860–1932) in <i>De kleine Johannes</i> ("Little Johnny", 1887) and in <i>Van de koele meren des doods</i> ("From the Cold Pools of Death", 1901), a melancholy novel. </p><p>After 1887 the condition of modern Dutch literature remained comparatively stationary, and within the last decade of the 19th century was definitely declining. In 1889 a new poet, <a href="/wiki/Herman_Gorter" title="Herman Gorter">Herman Gorter</a> (1864–1927) made his appearance with an <a href="/wiki/Epic_poem" class="mw-redirect" title="Epic poem">epic poem</a> called <i>Mei</i> ("May"), eccentric both in prosody and in treatment. He held his own without any marked advance towards lucidity or variety. Since the recognition of Gorter, however, no really remarkable talent made itself prominent in Dutch poetry except <a href="/wiki/P.C._Boutens" class="mw-redirect" title="P.C. Boutens">P.C. Boutens</a> (1870–1943), whose <i>Verzen</i> ("Verses") in 1898 were received with great respect. </p><p>Kloos collected his poems in 1894. The others, with the exception of Couperus, showed symptoms of sinking into silence. The entire school, now that the struggle for recognition was over, rested on its triumphs and soon limited itself to a repetition of its old experiments. </p><p>The leading <a href="/wiki/Drama" title="Drama">dramatist</a> at the close of the century was <a href="/wiki/Herman_Heijermans" title="Herman Heijermans">Herman Heijermans</a> (1864–1924), a writer of strong <a href="/wiki/Realism_(art)" class="mw-redirect" title="Realism (art)">realistic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialistic</a> tendencies who single-handedly brought Dutch theatre into the modern time. His <a href="/wiki/Fisherman" title="Fisherman">fishermen's</a> <a href="/wiki/Tragedy" title="Tragedy">tragedy</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Op_Hoop_van_Zegen" class="mw-redirect" title="Op Hoop van Zegen">Op Hoop van Zegen</a></i> ("Trusting Our Fate in the Hands of God"), which is still staged, remains his most popular play. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_20th_century">The 20th century</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dutch-language_literature&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: The 20th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In common with the rest of <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a> of the nineteenth century effectively remained unchanged until <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> (1914–1918). Belgium was invaded by the <a href="/wiki/German_Empire" title="German Empire">German Empire</a>; the Netherlands faced severe <a href="/wiki/Recession" title="Recession">economic difficulties</a> owing to its policy of <a href="/wiki/Neutral_country" title="Neutral country">neutrality</a> and consequent political isolation, wedged as it was between the two warring sides. </p><p>Both the Belgian and Dutch societies emerged from the war <a href="/wiki/Pillarisation" title="Pillarisation">pillarised</a>, meaning that each of the main religious and ideological movements (Protestant, Catholic, Socialist and Liberal) stood independent of the rest, each operating its own newspapers, magazines, schools, broadcasting organizations and so on in a form of self-imposed, non-racial segregation. This in turn affected literary movements, as writers gathered around the literary magazines of each of the four "pillars" (limited to three in Belgium, as Protestantism never took root there). </p><p>One of the most important historical writers of the 20th century was <a href="/wiki/Johan_Huizinga" title="Johan Huizinga">Johan Huizinga</a>, who is known abroad and translated in different languages and included in several <a href="/wiki/Great_books" class="mw-redirect" title="Great books">great books</a> lists. His written works were influenced by the literary figures of the early 20th century. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hendrik_Marsman" title="Hendrik Marsman">Hendrik Marsman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adriaan_Roland_Holst" title="Adriaan Roland Holst">Adriaan Roland Holst</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=J._van_Oudshoorn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="J. van Oudshoorn (page does not exist)">J. van Oudshoorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_van_Schendel" title="Arthur van Schendel">Arthur van Schendel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hendrik_de_Vries" title="Hendrik de Vries">Hendrik de Vries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacobus_van_Looy" title="Jacobus van Looy">Jacobus van Looy</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_Objectivity_and_the_Forum_Group_(1925–1940)"><span id="New_Objectivity_and_the_Forum_Group_.281925.E2.80.931940.29"></span>New Objectivity and the Forum Group (1925–1940)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dutch-language_literature&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: New Objectivity and the Forum Group (1925–1940)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the 1920s, a new group of writers who distanced themselves from the ornate style of the Movement of 1880 arose, claiming it to be too self-centered and distanced from real life. Their movement was called "Nieuwe Zakelijkheid", or New Objectivity. An isolated forerunner is the figure of <a href="/wiki/Nescio" title="Nescio">Nescio</a> (J.H.F. Grönloh, 1882–1961), who published his few short stories in the 1910s. A prime example of New Objectivity is <a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_Bordewijk" title="Ferdinand Bordewijk">F. Bordewijk</a> (1884–1965), whose short story <i>Bint</i> (1931) and terse writing epitomise the style. </p><p>An offshoot of the New Objectivity movement centered on the <i>Forum</i> magazine, which appeared in the years 1932–1935 and was edited by the leading Dutch <a href="/wiki/Literary_criticism" title="Literary criticism">literary critic</a> <a href="/wiki/Menno_ter_Braak" title="Menno ter Braak">Menno ter Braak</a> (1902–1940) and the novelist <a href="/wiki/Edgar_du_Perron" class="mw-redirect" title="Edgar du Perron">Edgar du Perron</a> (1899–1940). Writers associated at one point or other with this modernist magazine include Belgian writers <a href="/wiki/Willem_Elsschot" title="Willem Elsschot">Willem Elsschot</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marnix_Gijsen" title="Marnix Gijsen">Marnix Gijsen</a> and Dutch writers <a href="/wiki/J._Slauerhoff" title="J. Slauerhoff">J. Slauerhoff</a>, <a href="/wiki/Simon_Vestdijk" title="Simon Vestdijk">Simon Vestdijk</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jan_Greshoff" title="Jan Greshoff">Jan Greshoff</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Second_World_War_and_Occupation_(1940–1945)"><span id="Second_World_War_and_Occupation_.281940.E2.80.931945.29"></span>Second World War and Occupation (1940–1945)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dutch-language_literature&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Second World War and Occupation (1940–1945)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Netherlands_(1939%E2%80%931945)" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the Netherlands (1939–1945)">History of Belgium (1939-1945)</a> and <a href="/wiki/History_of_Belgium#World_War_II" title="History of Belgium">History of Belgium § World War II</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a> marked an abrupt change in the Dutch literary landscape. Casualties of the start of the German occupation included Du Perron (heart attack), Ter Braak (suicide) and Marsman (drowned while trying to escape to the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>); many other writers were forced into hiding or rounded up in <a href="/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi concentration camp">Nazi concentration camps</a>, such as Vestdijk. Many writers ceased publishing as a consequence of refusing to join the German-installed Kultuurkamer (Chamber of Culture), which intended to regulate cultural life in the Netherlands. Jewish-born writer <a href="/wiki/Josef_Cohen" class="mw-redirect" title="Josef Cohen">Josef Cohen</a> escaped prosecution by converting to <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>; aspiring writer <a href="/wiki/Anne_Frank" title="Anne Frank">Anne Frank</a> (whose <a href="/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl" title="The Diary of a Young Girl">diary</a> was published posthumously) died in a German <a href="/wiki/Concentration_camp" title="Concentration camp">concentration camp</a>, as did <a href="/wiki/Crime_fiction" title="Crime fiction">crime fiction</a> writer, <a href="/wiki/Journalist" title="Journalist">journalist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Poet" title="Poet">poet</a> <a href="/wiki/Jan_Campert" title="Jan Campert">Jan Campert</a>, who was arrested for aiding Jews and died in 1943 in <a href="/wiki/Neuengamme_concentration_camp" title="Neuengamme concentration camp">Neuengamme</a>. His poem <i>De achttien dooden</i> ("The eighteen dead"), written from the point of view of a captured <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Resistance" class="mw-redirect" title="Dutch Resistance">resistance member</a> awaiting his execution, has become the most famous example of war-related Dutch literature. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Modern_times_(1945–present)"><span id="Modern_times_.281945.E2.80.93present.29"></span>Modern times (1945–present)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dutch-language_literature&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Modern times (1945–present)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hella_Haasse.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Hella_Haasse.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="207" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="207" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Hella_S._Haasse" class="mw-redirect" title="Hella S. Haasse">Hella S. Haasse</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Writers who had lived through the atrocities of the Second World War reflected in their works on the changed perception of reality. Obviously many looked back on their experiences the way <a href="/wiki/Anne_Frank" title="Anne Frank">Anne Frank</a> had done in her Diary, this was the case with <i>Het bittere kruid</i> (The bitter herb) of <a href="/wiki/Marga_Minco" title="Marga Minco">Marga Minco</a>, and <i>Kinderjaren</i> (Childhood) of <a href="/wiki/Jona_Oberski" title="Jona Oberski">Jona Oberski</a>. The renewal, which in literary history would be described as "ontluisterend realisme" (shocking realism), is mainly associated with three authors: <a href="/wiki/Gerard_Reve" title="Gerard Reve">Gerard Reve</a>, <a href="/wiki/W.F._Hermans" class="mw-redirect" title="W.F. Hermans">W.F. Hermans</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anna_Blaman" title="Anna Blaman">Anna Blaman</a>. Idealism seems to have disappeared from their prose, now marked by the description of raw reality, inhumanity, with great attention to physicality and sexuality. An obvious example is "<a href="/wiki/De_Avonden" class="mw-redirect" title="De Avonden">De Avonden</a>" (The evenings) of Gerard Reve, analysing the disillusionment of an adolescent during the "wederopbouw", the period of rebuilding after the destruction of World War II. In Flanders, <a href="/wiki/Louis_Paul_Boon" title="Louis Paul Boon">Louis Paul Boon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Claus" title="Hugo Claus">Hugo Claus</a> were the main representatives of this new literary trend. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Harry_Mulisch_2010.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Harry_Mulisch_2010.JPG/220px-Harry_Mulisch_2010.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Harry_Mulisch_2010.JPG/330px-Harry_Mulisch_2010.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Harry_Mulisch_2010.JPG/440px-Harry_Mulisch_2010.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4686" data-file-height="3048" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Harry_Mulisch" title="Harry Mulisch">Harry Mulisch</a> in 2010</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Netherlands: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Vijftigers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vijftigers (page does not exist)">Vijftigers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lucebert" title="Lucebert">Lucebert</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hans_Lodeizen" title="Hans Lodeizen">Hans Lodeizen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jules_Deelder" title="Jules Deelder">Jules Deelder</a>, <a href="/wiki/J._Bernlef" title="J. Bernlef">J. Bernlef</a>, <a href="/wiki/Remco_Campert" title="Remco Campert">Remco Campert</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hella_S._Haasse" class="mw-redirect" title="Hella S. Haasse">Hella S. Haasse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eric_de_Kuyper" title="Eric de Kuyper">Eric de Kuyper</a>, <a href="/wiki/M._Vasalis" title="M. Vasalis">M. Vasalis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leo_Vroman" title="Leo Vroman">Leo Vroman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harry_Mulisch" title="Harry Mulisch">Harry Mulisch</a>, <a href="/wiki/Willem_Frederik_Hermans" title="Willem Frederik Hermans">Willem Frederik Hermans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gerard_Reve" title="Gerard Reve">Gerard Reve</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jan_Wolkers" title="Jan Wolkers">Jan Wolkers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rudy_Kousbroek" title="Rudy Kousbroek">Rudy Kousbroek</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gerrit_Komrij" title="Gerrit Komrij">Gerrit Komrij</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tessa_de_Loo" title="Tessa de Loo">Tessa de Loo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cees_Nooteboom" title="Cees Nooteboom">Cees Nooteboom</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maarten_%27t_Hart" title="Maarten 't Hart">Maarten 't Hart</a>, <a href="/wiki/A.F.Th._van_der_Heijden" class="mw-redirect" title="A.F.Th. van der Heijden">A.F.Th. van der Heijden</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rutger_Kopland" title="Rutger Kopland">Rutger Kopland</a>, <a href="/wiki/H.H._ter_Balkt" class="mw-redirect" title="H.H. ter Balkt">H.H. ter Balkt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gerrit_Krol" title="Gerrit Krol">Gerrit Krol</a>, <a href="/wiki/Connie_Palmen" title="Connie Palmen">Connie Palmen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Geert_Mak" title="Geert Mak">Geert Mak</a>, <a href="/wiki/J.J._Voskuil" class="mw-redirect" title="J.J. Voskuil">J.J. Voskuil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arnon_Grunberg" title="Arnon Grunberg">Arnon Grunberg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joost_Zwagerman" title="Joost Zwagerman">Joost Zwagerman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tjalie_Robinson" title="Tjalie Robinson">Tjalie Robinson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marion_Bloem" title="Marion Bloem">Marion Bloem</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ernst_Jansz" title="Ernst Jansz">Ernst Jansz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Beb_Vuyk" title="Beb Vuyk">Beb Vuyk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maria_Dermout" class="mw-redirect" title="Maria Dermout">Maria Dermout</a>, <a href="/wiki/Adriaan_van_Dis" title="Adriaan van Dis">Adriaan van Dis</a>.</li> <li>Flanders: <a href="/wiki/Gerard_Walschap" title="Gerard Walschap">Gerard Walschap</a>, <a href="/wiki/Louis_Paul_Boon" title="Louis Paul Boon">Louis Paul Boon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Claus" title="Hugo Claus">Hugo Claus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jef_Geeraerts" title="Jef Geeraerts">Jef Geeraerts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tom_Lanoye" title="Tom Lanoye">Tom Lanoye</a>, <a href="/wiki/Erwin_Mortier" title="Erwin Mortier">Erwin Mortier</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dimitri_Verhulst" title="Dimitri Verhulst">Dimitri Verhulst</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jotie_T%27Hooft" title="Jotie T'Hooft">Jotie T'Hooft</a>, <a href="/wiki/Herman_Brusselmans" title="Herman Brusselmans">Herman Brusselmans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tom_Naegels" title="Tom Naegels">Tom Naegels</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kristien_Hemmerechts" title="Kristien Hemmerechts">Kristien Hemmerechts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Herman_de_Coninck" title="Herman de Coninck">Herman de Coninck</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marnix_Gijsen" title="Marnix Gijsen">Marnix Gijsen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jos_Vandeloo" title="Jos Vandeloo">Jos Vandeloo</a></li> <li>Suriname: <a href="/wiki/Wim_Bos_Verschuur" title="Wim Bos Verschuur">Wim Bos Verschuur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Pos" title="Hugo Pos">Hugo Pos</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Corly_Verlooghen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Corly Verlooghen (page does not exist)">Corly Verlooghen</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ellen_Ombre&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ellen Ombre (page does not exist)">Ellen Ombre</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dutch-language_literature&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Middle_Dutch_literature" title="Middle Dutch literature">Middle Dutch literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dutch_folklore" class="mw-redirect" title="Dutch folklore">Dutch folklore</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Canon_of_Dutch_Literature&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Canon of Dutch Literature (page does not exist)">Canon of Dutch Literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dutch_Indies_literature" title="Dutch Indies literature">Dutch Indies literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belgian_literature" title="Belgian literature">Belgian literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surinamese_literature" title="Surinamese literature">Surinamese literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afrikaans_literature" title="Afrikaans literature">Afrikaans literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Dutch_language_writers" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Dutch language writers">List of Dutch language writers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geographical_distribution_of_Dutch_speakers" title="Geographical distribution of Dutch speakers">Geographical distribution of Dutch speakers</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dutch-language_literature&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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