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Excerpt from A New Holland-America Line: The Queen Wilhelmina Lectureship for Dutch Literature and History in the United States of America
On the other hand there has been no lack of interest for what was going on in America; for what might be seen and heard yonder. This 1nterest oscillated in course of time, and, to a certain extent, literature re¿ects this oscillation. From the poetry of the new-holland colonist, Jacob Steen dam, we must conclude that the inclination of Dutchmen at home to go out to new-amsterdam did not increase. Neither his Lof van nieuw-holland (praise of new-hol land) nor his prickei-vaersen (stimulating Songs), meant to recommend van Plockhoy's colonisation scheme, seem to have had much effect. When in 1 664 the English seize upon our settlement, America, for the present, disap pears from our ken.
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