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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DAH-DEM |
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DEKKER, JEREMIAS DE (1610-1666) , Dutch poet, was born at Dort in 161o. His father was a native of Antwerp, who, having embraced the reformed religion, had been compelled to take refuge
taste for literature and especially for poetry, and to acquire without assistance a competent knowledge of English, French, Latin and Italian. His first poem was a paraphrase of the Lamentations of Jeremiah (Klaagliedern van Jeremias), which was followed by translations and imitations of Horace , Juvenal and other Latin poets. The most important of his original
satire
work
yet effective irony, it is usually ranked by critics along with Erasmus
Dekker
November 1666. A complete collection of his poems, edited by Brouerius van Nideck, was published at Amsterdam in 1726 under the title Exercices poetiques (2 vols. 4to.). Selections from his poems are included in Siegenbeck's Proeven van nederduitsche Dichtkunde (1823), and from his epigrams in Geijsbeek's Epigrammatische Anthologie (1827). End of Article: DEKKER, JEREMIAS DE (1610-1666) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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