Jan François Elias Celliers
South African author
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contribution to South African literature
- In South African literature: In Afrikaans
…compassionate verse on human suffering; Jan F.E. Celliers, a pastoral poet; Jakob Daniel du Toit (Totius), who wrote some of the best elegiacs in Afrikaans; and C. Louis Leipoldt, whose poetry expressed the suffering inflicted by the South African War and whose collection of short lyric poems, Slampamperliedjies (“Songs of…
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