Wisse Alfred Pierre Smit Explained

Wisse Alfred Pierre Smit (6 December 1903, in Heumen, Gelderland – 20 June 1986) was a poet and an influential Dutch literary historian. He was a specialist in Dutch literature of the Golden Age (17th century).

Biography

W.A.P. Smit worked as a teacher for 17 years, before he accepted a professorship in Dutch literature at the University of Utrecht in 1945. He published various works of poetry^{[1] [2] [3]} and editions of a number of 16th and 17th century Dutch poets.^{[4] [5]} He gained academic renown with a number of studies on various aspects of 17th century Dutch literature.^{[6] [7]} Through his publications and his guidance to doctoral students, he had a considerable influence on the development of Dutch literary history in the 20th century.

In 1958 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[8]

External links

• Biography W.A.P. Smit

Notes and References

1. Smit, W.A.P. 1927. Feesten van het jaar
2. Smit, W.A.P. 1944. Stedetroost
3. Smit, W.A.P. 1944. Dagboek onder het kruis.
4. Jacobus Revius, Over-Ysselsche Sangen en Dichten. Uitgegeven, met ongedrukte gedichten vermeerderd en van verklarende aanteekeningen voorzien door W.A.P. Smit. (2 volumes, 1930 and 1935; introduction and notes by W.A.P. Smit)
5. Jan van der Noot, Het Bosken en Het Theatre. (With an introduction and notes of W.A.P. Smit and W. Vermeer. 1953.)
6. Smit, W.A.P. 1964. Het Nederlandse renaissance-toneel als probleem en taak voor de literatuur-historie. (transl.: Dutch Renaissance Drama as a problem and duty for Literary History.)
7. Smit, W.A.P. Kalliope in de Nederlanden. Het Renaissancistisch-klassicistische epos van 1550 tot 1850. (transl.: Kalliope in the Netherlands. The Classical Renaissance Epic from 1550 till 1850.) Volume 1 published in 1975, volume 2 in 1983, anticipated third volume has never been completed.
8. Web site: W.A.P. Smit (1903 - 1986) . Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences . 30 July 2015.