14 Facts About Flemish literature

Flemish literature is literature from Flanders, historically a region comprising parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands.

Until the early 19th century, this literature was regarded as an integral part of Dutch literature.

The flowering of medieval Flemish literature came to an abrupt end while in the 17th century the North knew a 'Golden Age' in the arts including Flemish literature.

Flemish literature had done his best to allay the frictions between the Netherlands and Belgium and to prevent a separation.

In 1851 a central organization for the Flemish literature propaganda was provided by a society, named after the father of the movement, the Willemsfonds.

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Claims put forward by the Flemish literature school were justified by the appearance of In 't Wonderjaer 1566 of Hendrik Conscience, who roused national enthusiasm by describing the heroic struggles of the Flemings against the Spaniards.

Flemish literature wrote a series of political and satirical songs, admirably suited to his public.

Flemish literature was one of the founders in 1844 of the Vlaemsch Belgie, the first daily paper in the Flemish interest.

Flemish literature's works include a long list of plays, among them Jan Steen, a comedy; Gretry, which gained a national prize in 1861; Vissers van Blankenberge ; and the patriotic drama of Zannekin.

Flemish literature was precise, sober and concrete in his methods, relying for his effect on the accumulation of carefully observed detail.

Flemish literature was particularly successful in describing the life of the shipping quarter of his native town.

Flemish literature had been the leading spirit of a students association at Ghent for the propagation of Flemish views, and the Willemsfonds owed much of its success to his energetic co-operation.

Flemish literature was born at Wambeke in Brabant in 1857, and became professor in the academy of the fine arts at Antwerp.

Flemish literature introduced something of the ideas and methods of contemporary French writers into Flemish verse; and explained his theories in 1898 in an Inleiding tot de Poezie.