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| Gezelle, Guido |
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(g ´d kh zl´ ) (KEY) , 1830–99, Flemish poet, b. Bruges, a Roman Catholic priest. A forerunner of the Flemish literary revival, he was the leading poet of the Flemings. In six volumes of lyrics, especially Rijmsnoer [necklace of rhymes] (1897), he combined a love of nature, a championing of the Flemish cause, and an intense feeling for religion. He wrote in the popular idiom of his region. | 1 | | See English translation of some of his work by M. Swepstone (1937). | 2 |
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