Martinus Nijhoff

Martinus Nijhoff was born in The Hague on 20 April 1894. He studied literature in Amsterdam and law in Utrecht, without ever practising, and began writing poetry in 1916. Married to Netty Wind, who wrote under the name A. H. Nijhoff, he became a respected critic and a craftsman of verse, handling the forms inherited from every period. His clear language, joined to a mystical substance, set him apart from the experimental poets of his time, and his poetry has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He died in his native city on 26 January 1953.

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• PoetryAwaterMartinus Nijhoff · 1934LiteraturePublic domain