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Maatstaf was a Dutch literary magazine, founded in 1953 by Bert Bakker. [1] Bakker, who was the magazine's first editor, is credited with bringing in poets such as Ida Gerhardt. [2] The magazine had a reputation for publishing "realist" authors (such as Maarten 't Hart), [3] and was categorized as "neoromantic," one of a number of Dutch literary magazines in an "anti-experimental tradition." [4] Dutch poet Gerrit Komrij, who edited the magazine from 1969 on, was the subject of a themed issue in 1984, [5] and again in 1996, this last time centered on a collection of ten homo-erotic poems he had published in 1978, Capriccio. In that same year, 1996, the magazine, with a new team of editors, was renewed following a "conservative revolution." [6]

Maatstaf was a leading magazine for Dutch poetry until the 1970s, when it was supplanted by magazines such as De Revisor and Raster . In 1999, De Arbeiderspers ceased its publication. [7]

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  2. ↑ Reitsma, Anneke (1998). Een naam en ster als boegbeeld: de poëzie van Ida Gerhardt in symbolistisch perspectief. Van Gorcum. p. 15. ISBN   978-90-232-3413-5.
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