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Encyclopedia Britannica



VOSMAER, CAREL (1826-1888)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 215 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
VOSMAER, CAREL (1826-1888) , Dutch poet and art-critic, was born at the Hague on the 2cth of March 1826. He was trained to the law, and held various judiciary posts, but in 1873 withdrew entirely from legal practice. His first volume of poems, 186o, did not contain much that was remarkable. His temperament was starved in the very thin air of the intellectual Holland of those days, and it was not until after the sensational
appearance
  of Multatuli (Edward Douwes-
Dekker
 ) that
Vosmaer
 , at the age of
forty
 , woke up to a consciousness of his own talent. In 1869 he produced an exhaustive monograph on
Rembrandt
 , which was issued in French.
Vosmaer
  became a contributor to, and then the leading spirit and editor of, a journal which played an immense part in the awakening of Dutch literature; this was the Nederlandsche Spectator, in which a
great
  many of his own works, in
prose
  and verse, originally appeared. The remarkable miscellanies of Vosmaer, called Birds of Diverse Plumage, appeared in three volumes, in 1872, 1874 and 1876. In 1879 he selected from these all the pieces in verse, and added other poems to them. In 1881 he published an archaeological novel called Amazone, the scene of which was laid in Naples and Rome, and which described the raptures of a Dutch antiquary in love. Vosmaer
undertook the gigantic task of translating
Homer
  into Dutch hexameters, and he lived just long enough to see this completed and revised. In 1873 he came to London to visit his lifelong friend, Sir (then Mr) Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and on his return published Londinias, an exceedingly brilliant mock-heroic poem in hexameters. His last poem was Nanno, an idyll on the Greek model. Vosmaer died, while travelling in Switzerland, on the 12th of June 1888. He was unique in his fine sense of plastic expression; he was eminently tasteful, lettered, relined. Without being a genius, he possessed immense talent, just of the order to be useful in 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 Holland. 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 some-what under the influence of English prose models. (E. G.)


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