edited by Adriaan van der Weel, Peter Davidson and Peter Davidson
Amsterdam University Press, 2015
Cloth: 978-90-8964-879-2 | eISBN: 978-90-485-2743-4
Library of Congress Classification PT5664.A23 2015

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Dutch Golden Age poet Constantijn Huygens (1596—1687) was a remarkable figure: in addition to writing poetry, he composed music; was secretary to two Princes of Orange, Frederick Henry and William II; and became a friend to John Donne, Rembrandt, Descartes, and many other notable people of his time. In this book, Peter Davidson and Adriaan van der Weel offer a broad selection of Huygens’s poems and provide excellent translations for those written in Dutch, Latin, and a number of other languages“revealing both Huygens’s literary talent and his remarkable linguistic range.