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Jacques Hamelink

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is a violent attack on a contemporary Dutch literary criticism that was less and less appreciative of Hamelink's work. Hamelink especially reproached his contemporaries for their lack of knowledge of the classics and their complacent admiration of "experimental" poetry.
189:, was that poetry should try to speak the impossible, and that its failure to do this constitutes its greatness. This was perhaps most effectively enunciated in the speech "Op weg naar de poëzie" ("On the Way to Poetry"), published in the significantly titled 145:) revolve around the interplay between man and nature, where the former is always inferior to the latter. Main characters in these stories often disappear or die faced with the amoral and omnipresent force of life. The poetry, collected in such books as 247:: for Hamelink, the writer who tries to capture the "mystery" has to be thoroughly familiar with both human history and the literary tradition. In doing this Hamelink consciously placed himself in a tradition that stretches from 274:") his work became highly allusive, with personal and "general" history fusing in ever more rigidly constructed poems. The language of these poems heightens their difficulty: the author riffs on existing words, creating 180:
and shoved to the side. Despite his growing unpopularity, Hamelink continued on his set course, which would become more and more mystical as the years progressed. His growing belief, borrowed from poets such as
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This is not to say that Hamelink's poetry is not fairly experimental in its own right. However, he protests against easy experimentation, where innovation becomes a mask for a total lack of content.
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De Coux, Anneleen. “ ‘De ornamentenversierde cither heraangeraakt’: Kinksteen van Ch'in van ::Jacques Hamelink”.
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have written positive reviews on his later works and two of his publications were nominated for the prestigious
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5 (2003): 62-65. and Elshout, Ron. “Eeuwig, dagelijks: Over Tweede Gedichten van Jacques Hamelink”.
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Hamelink's poetry became more instead, less personal. This is most obvious in books such as
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These years (the 1980s) also feature the publication of two important critical texts:
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Elshout, Ron. “Eeuwig, dagelijks: Over Tweede Gedichten van Jacques Hamelink”.
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prose and chose to write more and more poetry full of historical and literary
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cf. De Coux, Anneleen. “ ‘De ornamentenversierde cither heraangeraakt’:
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Similarly to the poet, high demands are made on the reader and critic.
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Hamelink was born in Driewegen. His early stories (as collected in
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Pfeijffer, Ilja Leonard. “De boogschutter kan niet missen”.
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Pfeiffer, Ilya Leonard. “De boogschutter kan niet missen”.
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This initial success would be short-lived: starting with
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Peilingen: Teksten over Proza, Poëzie en Podiumkunsten
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Zeegezang inclusief gesternten van Frederik de Zeeman
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Dutch poet, novelist, and literary critic (1939–2021)
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Brussels: VUBpress, 1999. 281-302. 218:Remembrance of the Disappeared Light 493:Herinnering aan het verdwenen licht 444:In een lege kamer een garen draadje 214:Herinnering aan het verdwenen licht 260:In een lege kamer een garendraadje 241:In an Empty Room a Piece of String 237:In een lege kamer een garendraadje 25: 752:Constantijn Huygens Prize winners 210:Ceremonial and Specific Madrigals 556:Zilverzonnige en onneembare maan 767:20th-century Dutch male writers 402:Een reis door het demiurgenrijk 360:Geest van spraak en tegenspraak 528:Folklore imaginaire de Flandre 1: 465:Uit een nieuwe Akasha-kroniek 762:20th-century Dutch novelists 381:Afdalingen in de ingewanden 798: 726:Kritisch literatuurlexicon 619:Kritisch Literatuurlexicon 584:Vigerende oudelandse grond 570:De Dame van de Tapisserie 353:De betoverde bruidsnacht 95:Jacobus Marinus Hamelink 43:Jacobus Marinus Hamelink 591:Oden voor komende nacht 107:The Vegetative Dominion 77:Novelist, poet, teacher 757:Dutch literary critics 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Index

Hamelink
Driewegen
Het plantaardig bewind
pessimistic
references
abstract
hermetic
Paul Celan
Hölderlin
Zeelandic Flanders
Dante Alighieri
T. S. Eliot
neologisms
archaic words
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
VSB poetry prize
NRC Handelsblad
Categories
1939 births
2021 deaths
Constantijn Huygens Prize winners
Dutch literary critics
20th-century Dutch novelists
20th-century Dutch male writers
Dutch male novelists
Dutch male poets
People from Terneuzen

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