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Herman Gorter

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Born: November 25 1864

Died: 1414 09 19271927

Herman Gorter was a Dutch poet and socialist. He was a leading member of the Tachtigers, a highly influential group of Dutch writers who worked together in Amsterdam in the 1880s, centered around De Nieuwe Gids .

Gorter's first book, a 4,000 verse epic poem called "Mei" , sealed his reputation as a great writer upon its publication in 1889, and is regarded as the pinnacle of Dutch Impressionist literature. Gorter rapidly followed this up with a book of short lyric poetry simply called "Verzen" in 1890, which, after the initial bad reviews, was equally hailed as a masterpiece.

Gorter shared in common with the Tachtigers an interest in leftist politics, and became the most politically involved of the group, becoming an active writer on socialist theory. He joined the Social Democratic Labour Party in 1897. In 1909 he participated in a schism from the SDAP to form the Social-Democratic Party of the Netherlands. He wrote a massive new epic poem called Pan in 1912, describing the First World War being followed by a global Socialist revolution. In 1917, he hailed the Russian revolution as the beginning of that global revolution, although he soon afterward came to oppose Lenin.

In 1918 the Social-Democratic Party changed its name to the Communist Party of Holland , and in 1919 Gorter left the party. In 1921 he was a founding member of the Communist Workers Party of Germany, joining its Essen Faction and becoming a leading supporter of the Communist Workers International. Gorter died in Brussels in 1927.

Gorter was involved with the Significs group.

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Herman Gorter

Herman Gorter

Books from Herman Gorter

Mei: Een Gedicht

Verzen

Non-Leninist Marxism: Writings on the Worker's Councils

Open Letter To Comrade Lenin

Poems of 1890: A Selection

De mooiste gedichten van Herman Gorter

Ik vind je zo lief en zo licht

Een klein heldendicht

Verzamelde lyriek tot 1905

The Council Communist Reader

Selected Poems

Mei: een gedicht

Een rood lied zingt er. Een keuze uit de gedichten van Herman Gorter