Bloemlezing: honderd stuks uit de poëzy mijner laatste vijf-en-twintig jaren - Wap Dr. 1806-1880 ('s-Hertogenbosch Bogaerts, 1865)
Jan Jacobus Franciscus Wap (1806-1880) was a Dutch scholar. He attended the gymnasium in Leiden, where he became acquainted with Bilderdijk, with whom he corresponded for some time. He studied for several years at Ghent University and was appointed teacher of Dutch language and literature in 1828 at the newly established Royal Military Academy in Breda. In 1837 he made a trip to Rome and obtained his doctorate in philosophy there.
Wap's first literary steps date from his time in Belgium; he was one of the founders of the Belgian Muses-Almanac and contributed as a critic to the magazine De Argus (1825-1826), published in Brussels. After his return to the Netherlands he founded the weekly magazine Argus (1828-1829), of which he was editor under the pseudonym Fr. Reland and in which he, with the help of his friend A. van der Hoop, among other things, fiercely protested against the drowsy national poetry; During this time he also anonymously published a sharp pamphlet against one of Rotterdam's poetic greats: Nieskruid for Mr J.L. Nierstrasz, Jr. (1828). His own poetry, however, also falls short of the standards of criticism and has not withstood the test of time; of more importance are some literary studies, but especially the account he made of his great European tour: My Journey to Rome in the Spring of 1837 (2 vols., 1838-39).
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Keywords: 19th Century (1801-1900); Poetry; Netherlands