TNTL 117/4

Jan Oosterholt

‘Wel wat dartel maar toch niet onbeschaamd’
Over Potgieter, de Gouden Eeuw en het genre van het minnedicht

Abstract -- About ten years ago the historian Van Sas suggested that only around 1800 a notion of a definite shift appeared in Dutch treatises on politics: people began to realise that a return to the Dutch Golden Age was impossible. This article suggests that in poetical discourse this notion appeared only a few decades later. This presumption is illustrated by the different ways two critics dealt with the lyrics of P.C. Hooft. Siegenbeek, writing at the beginning of the nineteenth century, saw Hooft as a ‘contemporary’, whereas three decades later Potgieter presented Hooft as a great poet, but belonging to a past era.

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