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Jacobus Bellamy was the son of Jacques Bellami junior His father died when he was 4.
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Jacobus Bellamy was the son of Jacques Bellami junior His father died when he was 4.
And Sara Hoefnagel. His Swiss-born (Vevey) grandfather then moved in with the family. From the age of 12 Jacobus started working as a bakers help. At this young age Jacobus already developed a profound liking of poetry, in which he found consolation.
Prominent Dutch poets of the time, like Joannes Antonides and Hubert Kornelisz.
Poot, were exemplary to him. A vicar recommended him to a local lyrical society, and later supported his application as a student of the clergy.
As a member he developed a theory in which looseness, truth and nature are essential conditions in any work of art His own poetry became Anacreontics in form.
In Vlissingen he fell in love with Francina/Fransje (or Fillis) Baane.
However, she engaged herself to another man in 1779, who died a year later. Jacobus then secretely engaged Francina. When Francines mother found out about their affair, she forbade lieutenant
In later years the couple would only meet in secret in the house of a mutual friend.
Towards the end of 1781, after some private tutoring by the dean, he was admitted as a student at Utrecht University. Several residents of his hometown provided financial support.
He rented a room in de Lange Nieuwstraat in Utrecht. In 1782 he published his first book of poetry, "Gezangen van mijn jeugd" (Songs of my youth).
He died in 1786, and was buried in the Nicolaikerk in Utrecht.
Before his first book of poems, in 1781 a poem was published in a patriotic weekly called "Post van den Neder-Rhijn", under a patriotic nom de plume Zelandus (derived from the province where he was born, Zeeland). With the publisher January Martinus van Vloten he published nine poems between 1782 and 1783 in the "Post van den Neder-Rhijn". Together they were published in his second book
In the second edition he published a well known poem called "Roosje" (Little Rose).
In this period he left the poetical group in the Hague, and joined a similar circle in Utrecht. He also started a magazine of his own, De Poëtische Spectator, in which he criticized his old poetical society.
His last book was published in 1785, in which he called his poems "odes", after an example set by another poet Kleyn.
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Influenced by a popular poet, he developed a style of poetry that could be understood by common people, which also expressed his feelings of patriotism and independence.
As a student he became member of a poetical circle in The Hague.