This is the most extensive selection in English of poems by one of the all-time great Dutch poets, Herman Gorter , Volume 2 of Arimei Books' The Essential Gorter set. It welcomes the reader to the rich spectrum of Gorter’s verse and traces his lyrical development following the epic masterpiece, May. The book includes a selection of his introvertive ‘sensitivist’ Verses , defining transitional poems, and key passages from the socially engaged epic Pan, complemented with a first publication in English of Gorter’s little-known and highly personal last work Lyrics .
This is the most extensive selection in English of poems by one of the all-time great Dutch poets, Herman Gorter , Volume 2 of Arimei Books' The Essential Gorter set. It welcomes the reader to the rich spectrum of Gorter’s verse and traces his lyrical development following the epic masterpiece, May. The book includes a selection of his introvertive ‘sensitivist’ Verses , defining transitional poems, and key passages from the socially engaged epic Pan, complemented with a first publication in English of Gorter’s little-known and highly personal last work Lyrics .