TY  - GEN
AU  - Gorter,Herman
AU  - Vincent,Paul (translated by)
TI  - Herman Gorter: Poems of 1890, A Selection
SN  - 111.9781910634066
PY  - 2015///
PB  - UCL Press
KW  - Poetry
KW  - bicssc
KW  - netherlands
KW  - dutch poetry
KW  - translation
KW  - herman gorter
KW  - politics
KW  - history
KW  - love
KW  - paul vincent
KW  - communism
KW  - low countries
KW  - poems
KW  - nature
KW  - socialism
KW  - Lachen River
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Commonly viewed as a revolutionary and propagandist Herman Gorter (1864–1927) is often overlooked despite his lasting contribution to Dutch poetry. This selection of thirty-one poems, translated by Paul Vincent, focuses on Gorter’s experimental love and nature lyrics in Poems of 1890, and the Introductionsets the poems in the context of his earlier seminal work 'Mei' (May) as well as his often neglected Socialist verse. The lyrical expansiveness, consistent use of rhyme and vivid imagery of the Dutch landscape that characterises 'Mei' evolves into more fragmentary verse in Poems of 1890, and the joyful celebratory tone of Gorter’s poetry increasingly co-exists with a sense of isolation and introspection. This can be viewed in the context of a rapidly changing political scene in Europe in the prelude to the First World War and the Russian Revolution.  This is a valuable collection that revisits Gorter’s literary and political legacy, and introduces English-speaking readers to a selection of his most accessible and lyrical poems
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33041/1/577531.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33041/1/577531.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33041/1/577531.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/29387
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