. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . Tesselschade, to whom he dedicatedhis dramas and for whom he sighed out a whole cycle of lovesongs. But this unlettered son of genius was at his best incomedy, for which he had a style of humor somewhat akin tothat of his great Bnglish contemporary, Ben Jonson. One ofhis best pieces is styled The Farce of the Cow, while hismasterpiece is Jerolimo, the Spanish Brabanter, a satire onthe exiles from the South. Sir Constantijn Huygens (i 596-1687) was the elegant poet,Pieter Cornells Hooft (1581-1647), the sweetly lyr
. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . Tesselschade, to whom he dedicatedhis dramas and for whom he sighed out a whole cycle of lovesongs. But this unlettered son of genius was at his best incomedy, for which he had a style of humor somewhat akin tothat of his great Bnglish contemporary, Ben Jonson. One ofhis best pieces is styled The Farce of the Cow, while hismasterpiece is Jerolimo, the Spanish Brabanter, a satire onthe exiles from the South. Sir Constantijn Huygens (i 596-1687) was the elegant poet,Pieter Cornells Hooft (1581-1647), the sweetly lyrical singer,and Joost van den Vondel (i587-1679) the sublime bard ofHollands great trio of poesy. Bach in his own domain stillstands unrivalled among the Dutch. The homely didacticstyle of verse, so characteristically national, was furnished forthis generation by Jakob Cats, familiarly remembered asFather Cats, who sang of maidens troth and masterpiece, however, is in prose, his History ofHolland. Motley praises him as one of the greatest ofEuropean
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