Cronus1.0067_Slauerhoff

Cronus1.0067_Slauerhoff

OGCMA.byu.edu s.v. "Cronus"

Jan Jacob Slauerhoff (1898-1936), Saturnus: Gedichten, a collection of thirty Dutch impressionistic poems. 'S-Gravenhage: Nijgh & Van Ditmar. 1930; reprinted 1984.

Ascertaining the poet's narrative gain in entitling this collectoin as an adaptation of the Cronus myth will require some careful reading. From the blurb: "[The poet's] strong interest in the past goes hand in hand with many French influences. Additionally, a section is filled with 'rural' poems." The poem "Landelijke liefde" was once awarded the City of Amsterdam Poetry Prize.

Bookcover of Slauerhoff's Cronus, collection of poems.

Bibliography:

Meijer, Reinder P. 1971. Literature of the Low Countries: a short history of Dutch literature in the Netherlands and Belgium. New York: Twayne. p. 324

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
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