Dutch literature - Decline 1670–1795 - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Dutch Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Literature - Decline 1670–1795
Unlike English literature, where the Augustan period and the Age of Enlightenment sustained the high level of the Jacobean age, eighteent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Literature - Earliest Stages 800–1550
For the earliest stages of the Dutch language (and so its literature), the boundaries with what is now considered German are vague, and s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Literature - The Twentieth Century
As in the rest of Europe, in the Netherlands the nineteenth century carried on unchanged until the events of World War I (1914–1918) ch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Literature - The Nineteenth Century
Against this backdrop, the most prominent writer was Willem Bilderdijk (1756–1831), a highly intellectual and intelligent but also ecce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Literature - Renaissance And The Golden Age 1550–1670
Main article: Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature The first ripples of the Reformation appeared in Dutch literature in a collecti...   » Read the article