CAREL See also:

• CAREL VOSMAER (1826-1888)

VOSMAER (1826-1888)  , Dutch poet and See also:

• ART

art-critic, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at the See also:

• HAGUE, THE (in Dutch, 's Gravenhage, or, abbreviated, den Haag; in Fr. La Haye; and in Late Lat. Haga Comitis)

Hague on the 2cth 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 1826 . He was trained to the See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, and held various judiciary posts, but in 1873 withdrew entirely from legal practice . His first See also:

• VOLUME

volume of poems, 186o, did not contain much that was remarkable . His temperament was starved in the very thin See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

air of the intellectual See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland of those days, and it was not until after the sensational See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance of Multatuli (See also:

• EDWARD

Edward Douwes-See also:

• DEKKER (or DECKER), THOMAS (c. 1570-1641)
• DEKKER, EDWARD DOUWES (182o-1887)
• DEKKER, JEREMIAS DE (1610-1666)

Dekker) that See also:

• VOSMAER, CAREL (1826-1888)

Vosmaer, at the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of See also:

• FORTY

forty, woke up to a consciousness of his own See also:

• TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental

talent . In 1869 he produced an exhaustive monograph on See also:

• REMBRANDT (1606-1669)

Rembrandt, which was issued in See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French . Vosmaer became a contributor to, and then the leading spirit and editor of, a See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

journal which played an immense See also:

• PART

part in the awakening of Dutch literature; this was the Nederlandsche Spectator, in which a See also:

• GREAT

great many of his own See also:

• WORKS

works, in See also:

• PROSE

prose and 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, originally appeared . The remarkable miscellanies of Vosmaer, called Birds of Diverse Plumage, appeared in three volumes, in 1872, 1874 and 1876 . In 1879 he selected from these all the pieces in verse, and added other poems to them . In 1881 he published an archaeological novel called Amazone, the See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of which was laid in See also:

• NAPLES
• NAPLES (Ital. Napoli, and Lat. Neapolis)
• NAPLES, KINGDOM OF

Naples and See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome, and which described the raptures of a Dutch See also:

• ANTIQUARY

antiquary in love . Vosmaer undertook the gigantic task of translating See also:

• HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer into Dutch hexameters, and he lived just See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long enough to see this completed and revised . In 1873 he came to See also:

• LONDON

London to visit his lifelong friend, See also:

• SIR

Sir (then Mr) See also:

• LAWRENCE
• LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
• LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
• LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
• LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
• LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
• LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
• LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
• LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)

Lawrence See also:

• ALMA

Alma-Tadema, and on his return published Londinias, an exceedingly brilliant See also:

• MOCK

mock-heroic poem in hexameters . His last poem was Nanno, an idyll on the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model .

Vosmaer died, while travelling in See also:

• SWITZERLAND

Switzerland, on the 12th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1888 . He was unique in his See also:

• FINE

fine sense of plastic expression; he was eminently tasteful, lettered, relined . Without being a See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius, he possessed immense talent, just of the See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to be useful in combating the worn-out See also:

• RHETORIC (Gr. psroperctj TEXvq, the art of the orator)

rhetoric of Dutch See also:

• POETRY

poetry . His verse was modelled on See also:

• HEINE, HEINRICH, (1797-1856)

Heine and still more on the Greeks; it is sober, without See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour, stately and a little See also:

• COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold . He was a curious student in versification, and it is due to him that hexameters were introduced and the See also:

• SONNET (Ital. Sonetto, dim. of Suono, Fr. Sonnet)

sonnet reintroduced into Holland . He was the first to repudiate the traditional, wooden alexandrine . In prose he was greatly influenced by Multatuli, in praise of whom he wrote an eloquent See also:

• TREATISE

treatise, Een Zaaier (A Sower) . He was also some-what under the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of See also:

• ENGLISH

English prose See also:

• MODELS

models . (E .