Mirror of the Indies
Subtitle: A History of Dutch Colonial Literature (Library of the Indies)
Publisher: Periplus Editions
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9789625935096
Subjects: Literary Collections; History: World; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Asian - General; European - German; Asian
First sentence: There have been two movements in our literature, wrote Busken Huet, that of the "systematic humanists," and that of the poets, such as the patricians Hooft and Huygens, who kept one ear cocked to the vernacular, and provided abundant proof of knowing it very well indeed.