The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants.

Gorter rapidly followed this up with a book of short lyric poetry simply called "Verzen" ("Verses") in 1890 which after the initial bad reviews was equally hailed as a masterpiece. Herman Gorter (November 26 1864 Wormerveer – September 15 1927 Brussels) was a Dutch poet and socialist. He wrote a massive new epic poem called Pan in 1912 describing the First World War being followed by a global Socialist revolution.