WILLEM BILDERDIJK
\wˈɪləm bˈɪldədˌe͡ɪk], \wˈɪləm bˈɪldədˌeɪk], \w_ˈɪ_l_ə_m b_ˈɪ_l_d_ə_d_ˌeɪ_k]\
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A celebrated Dutch poet; born at Amsterdam, Sept. 7, 1756; died Dec. 18, 1831. He reached the highest point of his lyric genius in the "Miscellaneous Poems" and patriotic pieces, notably the hymn "Willem Frederik" and "The True Love of Fatherland". Of his great didactic poems most are imitations; e.g., the "Country Life", after a French original; "Man", after Pope's "Essay on Man". His epic, "Destruction of the First World", a work not unworthy of his genius, was left uncompleted.
By Charles Dudley Warner
