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Marcellus Emants (1848–1923)
Emants, Marcellus (em’änts); A Dutch poet and descriptive writer, born at Voorburg near The Hague, Aug. 12, 1848; died in 1923. His travels gave play to his keen observation and his poetical imagination. Among his best are: ‘A Journey through Sweden’ (1877); ‘Monaco’ (1878); ‘Along the Nile’ (1884); ‘From Spain’ (1886). He holds a permanent place in the literature of the Low Countries through his charming narrative poems ‘Lilith’; ‘The Shimmer of the Gods’; and his dramas ‘He’ and ‘A Crisis.’