TNTL 117/2

Ellen Krol

De gelukkige man

Abstract -- The image of man and woman in Dutch ‘huiselijke’ of homely poetry (1800-1840) is contrasted here with the image the later writer Potgieter used. In the homely poetry, man claims the perspective for himself and implicitly places himself in the tradition of the philosophy of happiness and of the man of feeling in Sentimentalism. Homely poetry describes the happy man. There are several reasons why there is no place for female poets. While the image of woman is scarcely developed in homely poetry, Potgieter is shown to have invented a new female tradition in his early prose texts (1840-1845).

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