Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft - Gedichten - 1636

Poems. Collected and issued by Jacob van der Burgh - Amsterdam, Johan Blaeu, 1636 - (6) 464 (=460 pp) parchment binding

Good. Parchment somewhat rough, title vignette very slightly colored with grey ink. Interior browned, here and there a spot, brown stain on pages 219 to 222 (very) narrow damp streak along the lower margin of about half the leaves, damp spot in the lower corner of about twenty pages, brown spot at the top inside margin from the beginning to page 10 then much smaller and tapering toward page 65. The gathering pages 187 through 190 come loose at the bottom. Inside margins of pages 189/190 and 217/218 reinforced with paper. Only slight wear.

Contains a portrait in the text and 30 emblematic engravings - all illustrated

The first edition of the Poems from 1636 is a monument in Dutch literature, in which the Renaissance lyric poetry of Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft is central. The book was curated by Jacob van der Burgh and issued by the famous cartographer Johan Blaeu, because Hooft himself had shifted his literary focus at that period to historiography. The collection contains a wide range of poetry, from Petrarchan sonnets about love to light-hearted songs and wedding poems. In this work Hooft's language is characterized by a renewed suppleness and a strong rhythm, with which he elevated the Dutch language to a literary instrument capable of matching the classical and Italian examples.

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