Herinnering aan Holland
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Herinnering aan Holland (English: Memory of Holland) is a poem written by Dutch
poet Hendrik Marsman
(1899-1940), first published in 1936. The poem describes the Dutch landscape and the Dutch struggle against the waters. It is one of the best known Dutch poems and in 2000, it was chosen 'Poem of the Century’ in the Netherlands.
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
poet Hendrik Marsman
Hendrik Marsman
Hendrik Marsman was a Dutch poet and writer. He drowned while escaping to Great Britain, when the ship he was on was torpedoed by a German submarine....
(1899-1940), first published in 1936. The poem describes the Dutch landscape and the Dutch struggle against the waters. It is one of the best known Dutch poems and in 2000, it was chosen 'Poem of the Century’ in the Netherlands.