Review of Verhandeling van den Heer Willem de Clercq ter beantwoording der vraage, welken invloed heeft vreemde Letterkunde &c. gehad op de Nederlandsche Taal en Letterkunde &c.

A review of Willem de Clercq’s recent book of criticism mentions his fame as an improvisatore.

Performer Name:
de Clercq
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Date Written:
1829
Language:
English
Publication Title:
The Foreign Quarterly Review
Article Title:
Verhandeling van den Heer Willem de Clercq ter beantwoording der vraage, welken invloed heeft vreemde Letterkunde &c. gehad op de Nederlandsche Taal en Letterkunde &c.
Page Numbers:
4:37
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Place of Publication:
London
Date Published:
1829

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[…] for we, Englishmen, heard with amazement, some years ago, of an improvisatore who poured forth streams of beautiful and forcible poetry in the Nether-Dutch. That improvisatore was William de Clercq, and this work of his, which won — and deservedly won — a popular prize, contains irrefragable evidence of extensive reading, great sagacity, and generally of sound criticism.

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EW