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Martinus Nijhoff
Martinus Nijhoff (1894–1953) was a Dutch modernist poet, essayist, translator, and playwright, known for Awater and Het uur U and ranked among the greatest Dutch-language poets of the twentieth century.
Paul van Ostaijen
Paul van Ostaijen (1896–1928) was a Flemish modernist poet who introduced expressionism and dada into Dutch literature through his typographically experimental 1921 Antwerp collection Bezette stad.
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581–1647) was a Dutch Golden Age poet, playwright, and historian, called the head of the Dutch poets, who served as Drost of Muiden.
Ramsey Nasr
Ramsey Nasr (born 1974 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch poet, writer, and actor who served as the Netherlands' Dichter des Vaderlands, or poet laureate, from 2009 to 2013.
Remco Campert
Remco Campert (1929–2022) was a Dutch poet, novelist, and columnist known as one of the Vijftigers, whose novel Het leven is vurrukkulluk (1961) became a Dutch classic.
Vijftigers
The Vijftigers, or Beweging van Vijftig, were Dutch and Flemish poets who broke with rhyme and traditional meter in experimental verse from 1949 to 1955.
Willem Bilderdijk
Willem Bilderdijk (1756–1831) was a Dutch poet and lawyer, the leading figure of the early Romantic movement in the Netherlands, with more than 300,000 lines of verse.
Willem Kloos
Willem Johannes Theodorus Kloos (1859–1938) was a Dutch poet and critic, co-founder of De Nieuwe Gids and leading theorist of the Tachtigers, the Movement of Eighty.