Jacques Perk

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Jacques Perk

Jacques Fabrice Herman Perk (born June 10, 1859 in Dordrecht , † November 1, 1881 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch poet .

life and work

Jacques Perk was the son of a Walloon preacher and spent his youth in Breda from 1868 and in Amsterdam from 1872. Willem Doorenbos was one of his teachers . He began studying law in Amsterdam and was friends with the young poet Willem Kloos . For a stay in the Ardennes he made the acquaintance of the already engaged with another man Mathilde Thomas. As a result, out of love for this girl, he created his main work, the sonnet cycle Mathilde (1880–81), in which he glorified the ideal of beauty represented in the person of Mathilde. He formulated the idea that beauty is not desired, but can only be admired. He betrayed a deep lyrical talent that was only unable to reach full maturity, as he died of a lung disease in Amsterdam in 1881 while still studying law at the age of only 22.

Perk introduced the rich Dutch sonnet lyric from 1880 on ( Tachtigers ), which can be compared with the English in the age of Elizabeth I and Hélène Lapidoth-Swarth , Willem Kloos and Albert Verwey were among its main representatives.

His poems were published in Sneek in 1882. A new edition with a preface by Carel Vosmaer and an introduction by Willem Kloos came out in Amsterdam in 1896. The Dutch poet and writer Garmt Stuiveling published Perk's cycle of sonnets Mathilde in three volumes in 1941, as well as Perk's letters to Carel Vosmaer in 1938 and Perk's letters to JC Blancke in 1939.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Perk, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perk, Jacques Fabrice Herman (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch lyric poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Dordrecht
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1881
Place of death Amsterdam