98

Title: 98

Writer: Verbart

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789021485119

Condition: Good

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Description:
Andre Verbart's literary debut (his dissertation on Milton's Paradise Lost was published in 1995) is a strange case. '82' consists of no more than three poignantly moving poems, '84' ​​of a similar story and two pieces of English prose of as yet enigmatic content; and it is not until the title poem 'g8' that everything falls into place.

'98' is a story in 'blank verse', rhymeless lines of five iambs each, after the English model of Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth: Just like the latter, who described his youth in 'The Prelude', Verbart takes an episode from his own life by the head, namely his student days. He does so in an astonishingly flexible and versatile way: realistic, psychological, serious, witty, pitiful, cheerful - and then we are only talking about the content. Because the most special thing about '98' is the flexibility, the spontaneity of the verse, which can make itself almost invisible, but often also gives powerful accents and counter-accents to thoughts and events. What Frederik van Eeden said about Gorter's Mei also applies here: poetry of the first water.

Andre Verbart was born in 1960 in Zuid-Beveland. In Ig9S he obtained his doctorate in Amsterdam with the dissertation Fellowship in Paradise Lost: Vergil, Milton, Wordsworth.