Gerrit Achterberg
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Gerrit Achterberg (May 20, 1905 in Langbroek - January 17, 1962 in Leusden) was a Dutch poet. His early poetry concerned a desire to be united with a beloved in death. In 1937, he shot and killed his landlady and he subsequently spent six years in a psychiatric hospital.
His most famous work is the sonnet sequence De ballade van de gasfitter (1953; English translation, A Tourist Does Golgotha, 1972).
[edit] See also
- Detailed Biography and Bibliography in Dutch
- Margriet Ehlen - Dutch composer who has set to music some of Achterberg's poetry
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