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Location: Victoria Embankment Gardens, London, England
Maker: John Steell
Presented to the city of London by John Gordon Crawford
Established: July 1884
Additional information: A bust based on this statue is situated in Poets' Corner
Photos: Albert Hagenaars, 2 August 2022
The text reads: "
The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elishaat the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue; I tuned my wild, artless notes as she inspired.” Edinburgh, 4 April 1787
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Also see:
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Poets on poetry
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
