Jacques Perk

J. F.H. Perk was a Dutch man of letters who lived from 1859 to 1881. In these 186 pages - plus 23 of `notes and reference' plus INDEX the author examines Perk's poetry and his correspondence with a mind to Jungian archetypes. UNillustrated. Read more about : Willem Kloos, Eightiers, Geen Zomer, anima, Mathilde Cycle, sonnets, Renewal Movement, Carel Vosmaer, homoerotic, and image-symbols. Cond : Boards are forest green with gilt lettering and graphics. (The publisher's colophon is a winged horse and a globe.) The author, a professor at the University of Calagary, has signed and dedicated the title page. End-papers are white. Issued w/o dust jacket. Bright, tight, clean, and square in ALL aspects. Collectible !! Quote (p. 61) : " For this reason too, Perk's images of the eyes as revealers of the soul or of the angels as androgynous messengers of God cannot be relegated to the realm of mere unfelt cliches or conventional rhetoric. In his enthusiastic essays he wrote : ` Gaze at the eye of a woman, as the ._._._.' ." Size: Octavo.…