IDENTITY
Toen ik een knaap was
Literature
Work Summary
A retrospective poem beginning from the speaker's youth. It uses memory of childhood or adolescence to reflect on the distance between earlier expectations and later experience.
Evidence Summary
Explicit recommendation and textual use.
No artistic influence is inferred here.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Petrus Augustus de Génestet
Work
Toen ik een knaap was
Years / Period
28 Feb 1877
Van Gogh Relation
Quoted / Copied, Recommended / Sent
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
28 Feb 1877 — Letter 104
Quoted / Copied · Copied / recommended
Van Gogh tells Theo to read De Génestet 'much and often' and copies the poem.
Response: Explicit recommendation and textual use.
Connection: No artistic influence is inferred here.
Related Research Nodes
Study Subject
Themes
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