NIKOLAAS See also:

• NIKOLAAS BEETS (1814-1903)

BEETS (1814-1903)  , Dutch poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• HAARLEM

Haarlem on the 13th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1814; See also:

• CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant references in his poems and sketches show how deeply the beauty of that See also:

• TOWN

town and its neighbourhood impressed his See also:

• IMAGINATION

imagination . He studied'See also:

• THEOLOGY

theology in See also:

• LEIDEN

Leiden, but gave himself See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early to the cultivation of See also:

• POETRY

poetry . In his youth See also:

• BEETS, NIKOLAAS (1814-1903)

Beets was entirely carried away on the See also:

• TIDE (O. Eng. lid, cf. Ger. Zeit, time or season, connected with root of Sanskrit a-diti, endless)

tide of Byronism which was then sweeping over See also:

• EUROPE

Europe, and his early See also:

• WORKS

works—Jose (1834), Kuser (1835) and See also:

• GUY, THOMAS (1644–1724)

Guy de Vlaming (1837)—are gloomy romances of the most impassioned type . But at the very same See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time he was beginning in See also:

• PROSE

prose the composite See also:

• WORK

work of See also:

• HUMOUR (Latin humor)

humour and observation which has made him famous, and which certainly had nothing that was in the least Byronic about it . This was the celebrated See also:

• CAMERA (a Latin adaptation of Gr. Kagapa, an arched chamber)

Camera Obscura (1839), the most successful imaginative work which any Dutch-See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man of the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century produced . This work, published under the See also:

• PSEUDONYM (Gr. >l ev&,vuµos, having a false name, ¢Evirls, false and ovoµa, name)

pseudonym of " See also:

• HILDEBRAND, LAY OF (Deis Hildebrandslied)

Hildebrand," goes back in its earliest inception to the See also:

• YEAR

year 1835, when Beets was only twenty-one . It consists of See also:

• COMPLETE

complete See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short stories, descriptive sketches, studies of See also:

• PEASANT (O. Fr. paysant, Mod. paysan; Lat. pagensis, belonging to the pagus or country; cf. " pagan ")

peasant See also:

• LIFE

life—all See also:

• INSTINCT

instinct with humour and pathos, and written in a See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style of See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• CHARM (through the Fr. from the Lat. carmen, a song)

charm; it has been reprinted in countless See also:

• EDITIONS

editions . Beets became a See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor at the university of Leiden, and the pastor of a See also:

• CONGREGATION (Lat. congregatio, a gathering together, from cum, with, grex, gregis, a flock, herd)

congregation in that See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city . In See also:

• MIDDLE

middle life he published further collections of See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse—Cornflowers (1853) and New Poems (1857)—in which the romantic See also:

• MELANCHOLY (Gr. µe)tayXotia, from µEtas, black, and Xotii, bile)

melancholy was found to have disappeared, and to have See also:

• LEFT

left in its See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place a See also:

• GENTLE (through the Fr. gentil, from Lat. gentilis, belonging to the same gens, or family)

gentle sentiment and a See also:

• DEPTH

depth of religious feeling . In 1873–1875 Beets collected his works in three volumes . In See also:

• APRIL

April 1883 the honorary degree of LL.D . Edin. was conferred upon him .

He died at See also:

• UTRECHT
• UTRECHT, TREATY OF

Utrecht on the 13th-of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1903 .