Editing J. Slauerhoff (section)

==Style and themes==
Though Slauerhoff writes in the time of [[expressionism]], his poetry is, according to Garmt Stuiveling and G.J. van Bork, essentially [[Romanticism|romantic]]: strongly autobiographical, it evidences restlessness, imagination, and a longing for faraway places, expressed through an identification with tramps, discoverers, and pirates.<ref name="stuiveling">{{cite book|last1=Stuiveling|first1=Garmt|last2=Bork|first2=G.J. van|editor=G.J. van Bork, P.J. Verkruijsse|title=De Nederlandse en Vlaamse auteurs van middeleeuwen tot heden met inbegrip van de Friese auteurs|chapter-url=http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bork001nede01_01/bork001nede01_01_1217.php|year=1985|publisher=De Haan|location=Weesp|language=nl|pages=529–30|chapter=Slauerhoff, Jan Jacob}}</ref>

Much of Slauerhoff's work is concerned with the poor and downtrodden; especially the poetry collections ''Archipel'' (1923), ''Eldorado'' (1928), ''Soleares'' (1933), and ''Een eerlijk zeemansgraf'' (1936). A performance of his play ''Jan Pietersz. Coen'' (1930), highly critical of [[Jan Pieterszoon Coen]] (seventeenth-century officer of the [[Dutch East India Company in Indonesia]] and two-term [[Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies]]), was prohibited by the mayor of Amsterdam in 1948.<ref name=laan/>