TNTL 112

Els Stronks

'Een nektardoos en avontslaatje'. Liefdesgedichten van de predikant Joannes Vollenhove

Abstract - Joannes Vollenhove, a respectable minister of the Residence city of The Hague between 1665 and 1705, is known as a poet for his Poëzy, a collection of learned religious poetry and occasional poems. In this article another side of this minister-poet is brought to light: the four poems dealt with here show a poet in love who wrote verses brimming with frivolities and intimacy for both his first and second wife. The manuscript of these love poems has survived to this day, but only in handwritten form. The poems were not included in the Poëzy, presumably because of their personal nature or their technical shortcomings.