Middle Dutch language

Diet may mean: In nutrition: Diet (nutrition), the sum of the food consumed by an organism or group. Dieting, the deliberate selection of food to control body weight or nutrient intake. Diet food, those foods that aid in Dieting, e.g. Diet Coke Other uses: Diet (assembly), formal deliberative assembly Dietsch, distinguishes the southern dialects in the Middle Dutch language ...

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For the earliest stages of the Dutch language (and so its literature), the boundaries with what is now considered German are vague, and some fragments and authors are claimed for both realms. Examples include the ninth-century Wachtendonk Psalms, a West Low Franconian translation of some of the Psalms on the threshold of what is considered Dutch, and the twelfth-century poet Henric van Veldeke, who is claimed by both Dutch and German literature. The earliest literature to be indisputably ...

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Dutch literature, Dutch literature - Earliest stages 800–1550, Dutch literature - Renaissance and the Golden Age 1550–1670, Dutch literature - Decline 1670–1795, Dutch literature - The Nineteenth Century, Dutch literature - The Twentieth Century, Dutch literature - Interbellum and the Second World War 1920–1945, Dutch literature - Modern Times 1945–present

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As in the rest of Europe, in the Netherlands the nineteenth century carried on unchanged until the events of World War I (1914–1918) changed everything in all of Europe. Dutch literature - Interbellum and the Second World War 1920–1945. Marsman Roland Holst J.J. Slauerhoff Hendrik de Vries Vestdijk Ter Braak Du Perron Jan Campert Jac. van Looy Nescio ...

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Dutch literature, Dutch literature - Earliest stages 800–1550, Dutch literature - Renaissance and the Golden Age 1550–1670, Dutch literature - Decline 1670–1795, Dutch literature - The Nineteenth Century, Dutch literature - The Twentieth Century, Dutch literature - Interbellum and the Second World War 1920–1945, Dutch literature - Modern Times 1945–present

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Against this backdrop, the most prominent writer was Willem Bilderdijk (1756–1831), a highly intellectual and intelligent but also eccentric man who lived a busy, eventful life, writing great quantities of verse. Bilderdijk had no time for the emerging new romantic style of poetry, but its fervour found its way into the Netherlands nevertheless, first of all in the person of Hiëronymus van Alphen (1746–1803), who today is best remembered for the verses he wrote for children. Van A ...

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Dutch literature, Dutch literature - Earliest stages 800–1550, Dutch literature - Renaissance and the Golden Age 1550–1670, Dutch literature - Decline 1670–1795, Dutch literature - The Nineteenth Century, Dutch literature - The Twentieth Century, Dutch literature - Interbellum and the Second World War 1920–1945, Dutch literature - Modern Times 1945–present

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Main article: Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature The first ripples of the Reformation appeared in Dutch literature in a collection of Psalm translations printed at Antwerp in 1540 under the title of Souter-Liedekens ("Psalter Songs"). For the Protestant congregations, Jan Utenhove printed a volume of Psalms in 1566 and made the first attempt at a New Testament translation in Dutch. Very different in tone were the battle songs sung by the Reformers, the Gueux songs. The famous songbook of 1588, E ...

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Dutch literature, Dutch literature - Earliest stages 800–1550, Dutch literature - Renaissance and the Golden Age 1550–1670, Dutch literature - Decline 1670–1795, Dutch literature - The Nineteenth Century, Dutch literature - The Twentieth Century, Dutch literature - Interbellum and the Second World War 1920–1945, Dutch literature - Modern Times 1945–present

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Unlike English literature, where the Augustan period and the Age of Enlightenment sustained the high level of the Jacobean age, eighteenth-century Dutch literature mainly saw tame, formalistic, ever-diminishing returns of Golden Age themes and forms. After the great division of the Low Countries into the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Netherlands formalised in the Peace of Westphalia (1648), "Dutch literature" almost exclusively meant "Republican literature", as the Dutch language fell into disfavour with the southern rulers. A notable excep ...

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Dutch literature, Dutch literature - Earliest stages 800–1550, Dutch literature - Renaissance and the Golden Age 1550–1670, Dutch literature - Decline 1670–1795, Dutch literature - The Nineteenth Century, Dutch literature - The Twentieth Century, Dutch literature - Interbellum and the Second World War 1920–1945, Dutch literature - Modern Times 1945–present

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