is one of the major poets and essayists of his generation. His 1981 debut contained of romantic-cerebral poetry. in later books of poetry, influenced by the English poets of the interbellum period, are more sober in style and testify to a historical pessimism. His prose works consist of a modernist mix of essay, short story, polemic and autobiography, as the ‘genealogical autobiography’ Eeuwrest (Century Rest) shows. In 2006, both the anthology Het tongbotje: gedichten 1981-2005 (The Tongue Bone: Poems 1981-2005) and the poetry book Dichters van het Avondland (Poets of the Occident), which presents a history of the twentieth century through ten European poets. Barnard, also a translator, has lived in Belgium since 1976. [100609]