''Maatstaf'' was a

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, founded in 1953 by

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. Bakker, who was the magazine's first editor, is credited with bringing in poets such as

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. The magazine had a reputation for publishing "realist" authors (such as

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), and was categorized as "neoromantic," one of a number of Dutch literary magazines in an "anti-experimental tradition." Dutch poet

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, who edited the magazine from 1969 on, was the subject of a themed issue in 1984, and again in 1996, this last time centered on a collection of ten homo-erotic poems he had published in 1978, ''Capriccio''. In that same year, 1996, the magazine, with a new team of editors, was renewed following a "conservative revolution." ''Maatstaf'' was a leading magazine for Dutch poetry until the 1970s, when it was supplanted by magazines such as '' De Revisor'' and ''

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''. In 1999,

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ceased its publication.

Editors

(1969 - ?) *

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(1972 - 1980)

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