13-598: De Gids (meaning The Guide in English) is the oldest Dutch literary periodical still published today. It was founded in 1837 by Everhardus Johannes Potgieter and Christianus Robidé van der Aa . Long regarded as the most prestigious literary periodical in the Netherlands, it was considered outdated by the Tachtigers of the 1880s, who founded De Nieuwe Gids (meaning The New Guide in English) in opposition to
26-519: A merchant's office at Antwerp . In 1831 he made a journey to Sweden, described in two volumes Het Noorden in omtrekken en tafereelen ("The North in Outlines and Scenes") , which appeared at Amsterdam in 1836–1840. Soon afterwards he settled in Amsterdam, engaged in commercial pursuits on his own account, but with more and more inclination towards literature. With Jan Pieter Heije (1809 – 1876),
39-479: The Spenserian stanza . Fixed verse poems , such as sestinas , can be defined by the number and form of their stanzas. The stanza has also been known by terms such as batch , fit , and stave . The term stanza has a similar meaning to strophe , though strophe sometimes refers to an irregular set of lines, as opposed to regular, rhymed stanzas. Even though the term "stanza" is taken from Italian, in
52-586: The Italian language the word "strofa" is more commonly used. In music, groups of lines are typically referred to as verses . The stanza in poetry is analogous with the paragraph in prose : related thoughts are grouped into units. This short poem by Emily Dickinson has two stanzas of four lines each: I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity. Nor had I time to love; but since Some industry must be, The little toil of love, I thought,
65-808: The conventionalities of literary life runs through all his writings, even through his private correspondence with Huet, parts of which have been published. Potgieter remained to his death the irreconcilable enemy of the Dutch Jan Salie , as the Dutchman is nicknamed who does not believe in the regeneration of the Dutch people. Potgieter held up the Netherlanders of the Dutch Golden Age of the 16th and 17th centuries as models to be emulated. In these views he essentially differed from Huet. Yet
78-492: The initials of W. Dg , a great number of articles and poems. The first collected edition of his poems (1832–1868) appeared in two volumes ( Haarlem , 1868–1875), preceded by some of his contributions to De Gids , in two volumes also (Haarlem, 1864), and followed by three volumes of his Studien en Schetsen ("Studies and Sketches", Haarlem, 1879). Soon after his death a more comprehensive edition of Potgieter's Verspreide en Nagelaten Werken ("Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works")
91-576: The periodical. In 2011, De Gids ceased operations, but has been taken over as De-Gids-nieuwe-stijl by De Groene Amsterdammer . All volumes of De Gids up to 2012 are published in the Digital Library for Dutch Literature Everhardus Johannes Potgieter Everhardus Johannes Potgieter (June 27, 1808 – February 3, 1875) was a Dutch prose writer and poet, who was born at Zwolle in Overijssel . He started life in
104-404: The popular poet of Holland in those days, and Reinier Cornelis Bakhuizen van den Brink (1810 – 1865), the rising historian (see also Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer (1801 - 1876)), Potgieter founded De Muzen (The Muses, 1834–1836), a literary review, which was, however, soon superseded by De Gids (The Guide), a monthly, which became the leading magazine of Holland. In it he wrote, mostly under
117-440: The title of Personen en Onderwerpen ("Persons and Subjects") many of Potgieter's critical essays had collectively appeared in three volumes at Haarlem in 1885, with an introduction by Conrad Busken-Huet . Potgieter's favourite master among the Dutch classics was Pieter Cornelissen Hooft , whose peculiarities in style and language he admired and imitated. The same vein of altruistic, if often exaggerated and biased, abhorrence of
130-703: The two friends worked harmoniously together; and when Potgieter reluctantly gave up De Gids in 1865, it was Huet whom he chose as his successor. Both then proceeded to Italy, and were present at the Dante festivities at Florence , which in Potgieter's case resulted in a poem in twenty stanzas , Florence (Haarlem, 1868). According to a critique in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition , Potgieter's influence in Holland
143-475: Was large enough for me. This poem by Andrew John Young has three stanzas of six lines each: Frost called to the water Halt And crusted the moist snow with sparkling salt; Brooks, their one bridges, stop, And icicles in long stalactites drop. And tench in water-holes Lurk under gluey glass-like fish in bowls. In the hard-rutted lane At every footstep breaks a brittle pane, And tinkling trees ice-bound, Changed into weeping willows, sweep
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#1732791572170156-460: Was published in eight volumes by his friend and literary executor , Johan C. Zimmerman (Haarlem, 1875–1877), who likewise supervised a more complete edition of Potgieter's writings which appeared at Haarlem in 1885-1890 in 19 volumes. Of Potgieter's Het Noorden in Omtrekken en Tafreelen the third edition was issued in 1882, and an edition de luxe of his poems followed at Haarlem in 1893. Under
169-656: Was very marked and beneficial; but his own style, that of ultra-purist, was at times somewhat forced, stilted and not always easily understood. Stanza In poetry , a stanza ( / ˈ s t æ n z ə / ; from Italian stanza , Italian: [ˈstantsa] ; lit. ' room ' ) is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or indentation . Stanzas can have regular rhyme and metrical schemes , but they are not required to have either. There are many different forms of stanzas . Some stanzaic forms are simple, such as four-line quatrains . Other forms are more complex, such as
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