Author: PERK, J[ACQUES, 1859-1881] - KLOOS, W[ILLEM] (EDITOR),
Title: Jacques Perk Gedichten. Tiende Geheel volledige uitgave bezorgd door Willem Kloos [10th complete edition, edited by Willem Kloos].
Description: Amsterdam, S.L. van Looy, 1911. Small stout 8°., original publ. cloth, gilded title with large gilded vignette at tail on front cover, printed within a double-barred red coloured line-border with small decorations at each corner, richly gilded spine, designed by J.B. van Heukelom. 279pp. Text printed within a red coloured single typographycal line-border, some decorative and coloured initials and decorative vignetts. Critial Introduction, supplementary notes and a critical essay being an assessment of the introduction by Mr. C. Vosmaer by Willem Kloos, table of contents. Dutch language edition, edited by Willem Kloos, containing Perk's Mathilde-Cyclus and other poems by a famous nineteenth century dutch poet by the name of Jacques Perk, the containing, besides some other poems, the so-called Mathilde-cyclus ('Mathilde. Een Sonnettenkrans in vier Boeken'). Perk was inspired during his short, 5 days, love for a girl by the name of Mathilde Thomas, whom he met and fell in love with during a 5-day stay in the Ardennes, Belgium. The cyclys has been re-written at least two times, rather shortly before Perk's untimely death at the age of twenty-two. Very good copy in original publ. cloth. (small circular white ex-lib. label near tail of front outer joint).

Keywords: dutch literature jacques perk willem kloos poems poetry gedichten dichtkunst mathilde sonnets sonnettenkrans cyclus culture heritage