Emile Verhaeren: Selected Poems

Emile Verhaeren: Selected Poems

by WillStone (Editor), EmileVerhaeren (Author), EmileVerhaeren (Author), WillStone (Translator)

Synopsis

Verhaeren's overriding notion of mankind advancing to a promised land where vital creative energies and technology could combine to produce a more progressive human strain was ignominiously swept away by the industrial brutality of the First World War. And yet, to return to the poetry of Verhaeren now is to reappraise a master poet who consistently exhibits sublime visionary gift as well as his all too contemporary human vulnerability in some of the most tender and beautiful love poems ever written.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 160
Edition: Bilingual
Publisher: Arc Publications
Published: 22 Jan 2014

ISBN 10: 1904614698
ISBN 13: 9781904614692

Author Bio
Emile Verhaeren (1855-1916) is the most important Belgian poet in the French language. He was born and educated in Flanders and then settled into the literary community of Brussels where he soon became a pivotal link with the symbolist movement in Paris, finally moving there in 1898. Verhaeren's oeuvre is immense and was often illustrated by leading artists of the day. A national treasure, and symbol of defiance against German aggression, he died in an accident in Rouen station in 1916.