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| | Joost van den Vondel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Lucifer, which is generally regarded as van den Vondel's masterpiece, treats the same theme as had John Milton: the inexplicable revolt of the angels against God. |
 | | Meanwhile, van den Vondel's religious liberalism had gradually led him from Calvinism to Remonstrant views and eventually, at the age of 54, to the Roman Catholic Church, in which he found the peace of mind he sought in a universal faith. |
 | | He had shown himself to be a master of the lyric, the ode and sonnet, the epic, the long religious poem, and the essay, but his dramatic tragedies, with their powerful and lyrical language and the grandeur of their conception, remain his most important literary achievement. |
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