Jacob Steendam

Jacob Steendam was a seventeenth-century Dutch poet associated with New Netherland, the Dutch colony that became New York.

Poems of American History gathers verse on events from the Norse voyages to the Spanish-American War, arranged by historical chapter. The poems here are “The Praise of New Netherland” and “The Complaint of New Amsterdam”; Stevenson's editorial headnotes are not reproduced.