JOHN KEATS AND THE "BEWEGING VAN TACHTIG" (DUTCH POETS).
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Title
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JOHN KEATS AND THE "BEWEGING VAN TACHTIG" (DUTCH POETS).
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Identifier
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AAI8501177
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identifier
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8501177
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Creator
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STEVENS, JOSEPH TIMOTHY.
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Contributor
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George M. Ridenour
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Date
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1984
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Comparative | Literature, English | Literature, Germanic
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Abstract
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During the 1880's in the Netherlands a number of poets associated with the Beweging van Tachtig or Movement of the Eighties produced poetic allegories inspired by the English poet John Keats's Hyperion and Endymion. The historical, political, and cultural contexts for the highly self-conscious nineteenth-century literary revival that the Tachtig movement embodied were conducive to interest in and emulation of English literature.;In the mid-nineteenth century E. J. Potgieter and Conrad Busken Huet began to discuss details of Keats's biography as well as his works. Warner Willem van Lennep's translation of Hyperion appeared in 1879 and made a strong impact on the young writers who later became associated with the Tachtig movement. When Willem Kloos wrote the preface to Jacques Perk's Gedichten, published in 1882, he skillfully associated Perk, an exceptionally talented poet who had died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-two, with the Keats eulogized by Shelley in Adonais. Kloos's preface became the unofficial manifesto of the Beweging van Tachtig.;Van Lennep's translation of Hyperion was accompanied by extensive notes, which discussed the poem's allegorical structure as well as various metrical and translation concerns. Both Willem Kloos and another Tachtig poet Albert Verwey identified the translation as a significant influence during the formative period of the movement. Later, the two writers produced epic fragments in blank verse that showed definite signs of influence by Hyperion. Kloos's Okeanos was the most similar in terms of its narrative, but Verwey's Persephone included several passages that echoed closely specific sections of Keats's poem.;Finally, Herman Gorter's Mei appeared in 1889. The generally recognized masterpiece of the Tachtig period, Mei reflected the influence of Keats's Endymion rather than Hyperion. From its opening to its close, the course of the Beweging van Tachtig was intimately intertwined with the phenomenon of Dutch interest in John Keats.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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English
