combating the worn-out rhetoric of Dutch poetry. His verse was modelled on Heine and still more on the Greeks; it is sober, without colour, stately and a little cold. He was a curious student in versification, and it is due to him that hexameters were introduced and the sonnet reintroduced into the Netherlands. He was the first to repudiate the traditional, wooden alexandrine. In prose he was greatly influenced by Multatuli, in praise of whom he wrote an eloquent treatise, Een Zaaier (A Sower). He was also somewhat under the influence of English prose models. References Attribution: External links 1826 births 1888 deaths Writers from The Hague Rembrandt scholars 19th-century Dutch novelists Leiden University alumni 19th-century Dutch lawyers Dutch magazine editors Magazine writers Translators from Greek