Zutphen
I had forgotten for some time to empty the digital camera, and when I did (new pics of salad and beetroot coming up!), I discovered this quite decent picture of the IJssel bridge by Zutphen.
Zupthen is a very pretty, very well preserved Dutch provincial town. An old (pre-reformation, but only just) library with an interesting story and an interesting poem by one of the best Dutch C19 poets, Staring: the Jaromir Cyclus. It's not hard to be the best C19 Dutch poet, there's little competition, but Staring is pretty good. (And never mind the idiot white suprematists who turn up if you google for Staring, good literature is good literature even if idiots run away with it.) There's almost nothing about Staring to be found on the Internet, and no e-texts...
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