Wisse Alfred Pierre Smit

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Wisse Alfred Pierre Smit (6 December 1903, Heumen – 20 June 1986) was a poet and an influential Dutch literary historian. He was a specialist in Dutch literature of the Golden Age (17th century).

W.A.P. Smit worked as a teacher for 17 years, before he accepted a professorship in Dutch literature at the University of Utrecht in 1945. He published various works of poetry ^[1]^[2]^[3] and editions of a number of largely forgotten Dutch poets^[4]^[5]. He gained academic renown with a number of studies on various aspects of 17th century Dutch literature.^[6]^[7] Through his publications and his guidance to doctoral students, he had a considerable influence on the development of Dutch literary history in the 20th century.

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^ Smit, W.A.P. 1927. Feesten van het jaar
^ Smit, W.A.P. 1944. Stedetroost
^ Smit, W.A.P. 1944. Dagboek onder het kruis.
^ Jacobus Revius, Over-Ysselsche Sangen en Dichten. Uitgegeven, met ongedrukte gedichten vermeerderd en van verklarende aanteekeningen voorzien door W.A.P. Smit. (2 volumes, 1930 and 1935; introduction and notes by W.A.P. Smit)
^ Jan van der Noot, Het Bosken en Het Theatre. (With an introduction and notes of W.A.P. Smit and W. Vermeer. 1953.)
^ Smit, W.A.P. 1964. Het Nederlandse renaissance-toneel als probleem en taak voor de literatuur-historie. (transl.: Dutch Renaissance Drama as a problem and duty for Literary History.)
^ Smit, W.A.P. Kalliope in de Nederlanden. Het Renaissancistisch-klassicistische epos van 1550 tot 1850. (transl.: Kalliope in the Netherlands. The Classical Renaissance Epic from 1550 till 1850.) Volume 1 published in 1975, volume 2 in 1983, anticipated third volume has never been completed.