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HEEMSKERK, JOHAN VAN (1597—1656)

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HEEMSKERK, JOHAN See also:VAN (1597—1656) , Dutch poet, was See also:born at See also:Amsterdam in 1597. He was educated as a See also:child at See also:Bayonne, and entered the university of See also:Leiden in 1617. In 1621 he went abroad on the See also:grand tour, leaving behind him his first See also:volume of poems, Minnekunst (The See also:Art of Love), which appeared in 1622. He was absent from See also:Holland four years. He was made See also:master of arts at See also:Bourges in 1623, and in 1624 visited See also:Hugo See also:Grotius in See also:Paris. On his return in 1625 he published Minnepligt (The See also:Duty of Love), and began to practise as an See also:advocate in the See also:Hague. In 1628 he was sent to See also:England in his legal capacity by the Dutch See also:East See also:India See also:Company, to See also:settle the dispute respecting See also:Amboyna. In the same See also:year he published the poem entitled Minnekunde, or the See also:Science of Love: He proceeded to Amsterdam in 164o, where he married Alida, See also:sister of the statesman Van Beuningen. In 1641 he published a Dutch version of See also:Corneille's The See also:Cid, a tragi-See also:comedy, and in 1647 his most famous See also:work, the See also:pastoral See also:romance of Batavische See also:Arcadia, which he had written ten years before. During the last twelve years of his See also:life Heemskerk sat in the upper chamber of the states-See also:general. He died at Amsterdam on the 27th of See also:February 1656. The See also:poetry of Heemskerk, which See also:fell into oblivion during the 18th See also:century, is once more read and valued.

His famous pastoral, the Batavische Arcadia, which was founded on the Asiree of Honor6 d'Urf6, enjoyed a See also:

great popularity for more than a century, and passed through twelve See also:editions. It provoked a See also:host of more or less able imitations, of which the most distinguished were the Dordrechtsche Arcadia (1663) of See also:Lambert van den See also:Bos (1610-1698), the Saanlandsche Arcadia (1658) of Hendrik Sooteboom (1616–1678) and the Rotterdamsche Arcadia (1703) of Willem den Elger (d. 1703). But the See also:original work of Heemskerk, in which a party of See also:nymphs and shepherds go out from the Hague to Katwijk, and there indulge in polite and pastoral discourse, surpasses all these in brightness and versatility.

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