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POETS, PATRONS, AND PROFESSORS

 

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Publications of the Sir Thomas Browne Institute Leiden

 

General Editor: A.G.H. BACHRACH, D. Phil. (Oxon.),

 

Professor of English Literature in the University of Leiden

 

General Series no. 2

 

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Poets, Patrons, and Professors

 

Sir Philip Sidney, Daniel Rogers, and the Leiden Humanists

 

J.A. van Dorsten

 

Published for the Sir Thomas Browne Institute

 

Leiden: at the University Press

 

London: Oxford University Press

 

1962

 

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CONTENTS

PREFATORY NOTE	V
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS	X
INTRODUCTION
an ideal academia	1
The foundation of the University of Leiden, 1575: Divinity School or Academia? - contemporary evidence - propaganda - politics, protestantism, and the arts

 

PART I. DANIEL ROGERS

i.	early experiences	9
	The first foreign tribute in verse to Leiden University - a martyr's son - early poems - 1564-66, at Paris with Dousa - crucial contacts
ii.	years of study	19
	Rogers and the antiquarians - lost works - Ireland - Dousa's years of study and retirement - 1572, reunion in London
iii.	years of introduction	26
	1572-74: Hadrianus Junius' English connexions - Dousa addresses the Queen - Rogers' library - Sidney's Grand Tour - his first entrance into the continental world of letters
iv.	a gathering of dutch vates	33
	1575-77: Rogers, Buchanan, and the beginnings of Dutch poetry - Rogers in the Low Countries - the University of Leiden - a Leiden ‘school’ of poetry - Rogers and the Sidney circle - Buchanan - Buchanan and Van Hout - Rogers' share in Anglo-Dutch politics

 

 

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v.	rogers and sidney	48
	1577-79: Rogers, Sidney, and the Low Countries - Sidney the Queen's ambassador, son of the Viceroy of Ireland - Sidney and Melissus - Sidney in Holland - a rumoured match - Rogers returns - ‘on the portrait of Sidney’ - a general migration of scholars and their works - informal poetry at Leiden - the new English poetry - Rogers' Life of Sidney
vi.	the eclipse of rogers	68
	The end of a poet-diplomat - imprisonment and disillusion

 

PART II. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

i.	leiden visits england	77
	1580-86: main trends - England 1585, Leiden poets in the Dutch embassy - Constable's sonnets translated - ‘Stella’ - the London milieu - Sidney and the Leiden poets - patron to Baudius - a literary ‘quadrumvirate’ - death of Ronsard - the vernacular: a problem? - Sidney, multilingual poet - Leicester sails for the Low Countries
ii.	england visits leiden	106
	Leicester and Leiden, I - politics, not letters? - growth of Dutch poetry - Walraven - Gruterus - a scholarly justification - writers learn English - Leicester's first visit - celebrations - Sidney and Van Hout - second Leiden visit - University welcome - Leicester in Lipsius' audience
iii.	friendship and friction	119
	Leicester and Leiden, II - Sidney and Lipsius - Dousa's Odarum Britannicarum liber - an English contributor - friction between Leicester and the University - literary friendship and party policy
iv.	anglo-leiden integration	131
	March-September 1586 - Whitney's friends - A choice of emblemes - Whetstone and Walraven: a summary of the Leiden circle - Anglo-Leiden ‘integration’ - Gilpin on behalf of the University - Lipsius resigns - visits Utrecht to see Sidney - invited to England by Sidney - forebodings

 

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v.	leiden and the sidney myth	152
	The death of Sir Philip Sidney - literary repercussions in England and Holland - Leiden and the myth - twenty-seven Leiden poems - Baudius - problems in composition - Dousa the Younger's pastoral elegy and eclogue - Benedicti's academic exercises - the only foreign circle of mourners - Groslotius - a French conclusion
vi.	the end of a period	167
Appendix I.	Forty Latin poems devoted to Sidney	173
Appendix II.	Original readings of texts quoted	199
INDEX OF PROPER NAMES		221

 

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

 

Plate 1.	Sacra Scriptura in her chariot, attended by the four Evangelists; Apollo and the Muses in Neptune's barge. From the engraving of the pageant on 8 February 1575, the foundation-day of the University of Leiden facing	4
	Leiden, Academical Historical Museum.
Plate 2.	Drawing and inscription in the Album of Emanuel van Meteren by his kinsman Daniel Rogers, 1578 facing	21
	Oxford, Bodleian Library.
Plate 3.	Janus Dousa shaking hands with Jan van Hout after the siege of Leiden. Painted by Van Hout in Dousa's Album (f. 102v), and accompanied by Dutch verses facing	37
	Leiden, University Library.
Plate 4.	Janus Dousa, father and son. From a family portrait by Roeloff Willemsz. van Culemborg. After a photograph by Dingjan facing	92
	Leiden, Lakenhal Museum.
Plate 5.	Where the English visitors to Leiden stayed. From Jacob van Werven's copy (1744) of the original plan by Liefrinck (1574-76) facing	109
	Leiden, Town Archives.
Plate 6.	Sidney's Leiden residence in January 1586. From a contemporary water-colour on parchment. facing	116
	Leiden, University Library, collection Bodel Nyenhuis.
Plate 7.	Justus Lipsius in 1587. Engraving by Hendrick Goltzius facing	117
	Rotterdam, Boymans Museum, collection Bierens de Haan.
Plate 8.	Sir Philip Sidney, the hero. From Baudartius, Afbeeldinghe van alle de Veld-slagen, Amsterdam, 1616, f. 535 facing	164
	Leiden, University Print Room.

 

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Figure 1.	A refugee genealogy	21
Figure 2.	Leicester welcomed in The Hague. From Delineatio Pompae Triumphalis, 1586	113
	The Hague, Royal Library.
Figure 3.	Plantin blocks used in Whitney's Emblemes	134
	Leiden, University Library.
Figure 4.	The appendix to Whetstone/Walraven, The honourable reputation of a souldier/De eerweerdighe achtbaerheyt van een soldener, Leiden, 1586	142
	The Hague, Royal Library.

 

 

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ERRATA

page
18	note	3	eulogis read eulogies
46	line	27	repetative read repetitive
82	note	4	Dousa's', read Dousa's
83	line	21	interum read iterum
		23	mitus read mitius
88	line	8	‘'Triumphus’ read ‘Triumphus’
93	line	6	peotry read poetry
94	line	12	Thatt his read That this
102	line	12	low read Low
133	line	13	prototoypographotatos read protototypographotatos
157	line	27	Goddesses?'1 read Goddesses?'4
184-5	no.	12 line 1	exiquique sepulchri read exiguique sepulcri
198	no.	39 line 2	parijsse read perijsse
199	heading		reading read readings
218	no.	76 line 10	alliis read aliis
223			Gruterus, Janus, 17 read Gruterus, Janus, 16 Hagenoies read Hagenoius
224			Huygens, Constantijn, 92 read Huygens, Constantijn, 10, 78, 92