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Abraham Collem (1858 1933) The forgotten poet of God, "Thou, take 'the european bartender school parts and be the Universe" [last line XIX poem of God and of Nature] How close imaginationis as a poet with an amor Universi can come from the amor Dei intellectualis.
An increasing number of Spinoza's inspired poet! And here he was not yet included in the Poeticum Spinozanum? How is that possible? Was that because this Jewish atheist communist poet nowhere mentions in his poemes the name of Baruch Spinoza? Or is it due to the fact that almost no one knows him yet? Yet Victor Vriesland did have 11 poems by him in his Mirror of Dutch poetry (1979) and also took Oscar Wilde 3 poems by him in his The Dutch poetry of the 19th and 20th century etc. Is it because the workers of today are too good, so no more need of his labor humorous and militant verses? Or is it because the communist poet too religious for many happened? I do not know, but I am very happy that I at my investigative actions for this blog suddenly discovered him (how, which will soon be sometimes be clear). I hurried straight to the well-stocked library Maastricht. And there appeared almost everything collected by him and preserved, except noted, his last and (as I now know) main beam God. And I could also borrow the only monograph on the poet Jaap Meijer on behalf of the Minister for CRM (1977, Van Doorn must have been) wrote: Fighting prophet. The Jewish poet A. of Collem (1858-1933) [Heemstede, May 5, 1980; mimeographed edition in house].
Jaap Meijer clearly outlines the simple life ahead of Bram Collem, as he was known by his friends. Born in poverty in the paltry Jewish neighborhood in Rotterdam, where his father, "hawker and merchant ', in rags and sometimes acted confection peddled on the market european bartender school or roadside. He has hardly enjoyed teaching. It is not even sure if he has finished primary school. Later he took, as far as known, no longer part of education. He was a completely self-made man who wrote poetry and worked on The Chronicle and The New Age. in addition to his work in the textile industry initially european bartender school marketed, then as an independent with a engros case and - after financial problems - as a traveling salesman.
He wrote about the ordinary, simple life, as he experienced it himself. After Russian melodies (1891), a brochure considerations to help refugees from pogroms in Russia, from town and country, his first collection of poems, which appeared in 1906. From Collem was already nearly 50 years. It took another ten years until in 1917 the first of an annual series of almost bundles "songs" he called them, came out. Then, in his old age his close burst vein only open.
It is striking that many Christian themes come along. Jesus and Mary are regularly included european bartender school in his poems. european bartender school But usually in such a setting that the light-ironic seem. Christian, he is certainly european bartender school not become. Meijer points out that already in his early polemic with Henri Borel he Jesus and Spinoza called as "Jewish geniuses," as craftsmen included in a century pattern of Jewish legal scholars who earn their simple fare with a craft and also devote themselves to the problems of the mind (p. 78). And ever Of Collem makes clear that religions are human inventions; not just fantastic fictions, but expressions of deeply felt desires and fears. Of Collem understands people. And who, as he closed european bartender school on the Nature, it also needs to have all these natural human prosperity spreads also the religions. Especially his last strands splash thinking Spinoza and experienced off. That betrayal also the title of God and of Nature (1921); further: european bartender school Songs of the community. Third beam (1922), From the new community of men. A poem (1924). The soldiers. A Vision (1927), and finally God. A poem (1930). european bartender school
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