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Nicolaas Beets (1814–1903)
Beets, Nicolaas (bāts). A Dutch poet, novelist, and critic; born in Haarlem, Sept. 13, 1814; died at Utrecht, March 1903. His early lyrics, and the poetical tales ‘José’ (1834); ‘Kuser’ (1835); ‘Guy the Fleming’ (1837), are in the vein of Byron. He showed a maturer talent in ‘Ada of Holland’ (1840), and the lyric cycles ‘Cornflowers’ (1853), ‘The Children of the Sea’ (1861), and others; but is chiefly esteemed as a prose-writer of rare excellence, author of ‘Camera Obscura’ (1839), a series of tales and sketches of Dutch types. His pseudonym was “Hildebrand.”