Poems
()
About this ebook
Read more from Maurice Maeterlinck
Monna Vanna Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Life of the Bee: Nobel prize in Literature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMary Magdalene: A Play In Three Acts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Children's Life Of The Bee Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Death Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Blue Bird for Children: The Wonderful Adventures of Tyltyl and Mytyl in Search of Happiness Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Unknown Guest (Annotated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRuysbroeck and the Mystics: with selections from Ruysbroeck Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Buried Temple Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Inner Beauty Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Unknown Guest Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe miracle of Saint Anthony Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDeath Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Life of the Bee Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWisdom and Destiny: With an Essay from Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck By Jethro Bithell Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAglavaine and Selysette - A Drama in Five Acts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Poems
Related ebooks
Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPrague Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe White Peacock Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNarcissus Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMark Twain - Collected Works Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVirgin Soil Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVery Woman Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Sacred Fount Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Other Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPoems of Yeghishe Charent Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Chameleon House Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFirst Love Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYou Do Understand Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Crystal Crown: Avantir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summer Shorts: Summer Shorts, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummer of the Elder Tree Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOne Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Always Crashing in the Same Car: A Novel after David Bowie Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDead Souls (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe life of Friedrich Nietzsche Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The rescue Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: Formative Years Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Thought House of Philippa Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Ambassadors by Henry James (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNight School: A Reader for Grownups Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWithout Dogma Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Journey through a Tragicomic Century: The Absurd Life of Hasso Grabner Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Blue Absolute Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCalvary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5THOU Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Poetry For You
Inward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad of Homer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prophet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Way Forward Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love Her Wild: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Odyssey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dream Work Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leaves of Grass: 1855 Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twenty love poems and a song of despair Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gilgamesh: A New English Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Thoughts: An Exploration Of Who We Are Beyond Our Minds Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (ReadOn Classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Letters to a Young Poet (Rediscovered Books): With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related categories
Reviews for Poems
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Poems - Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck
Poems
EAN 8596547051619
DigiCat, 2022
Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info
Table of Contents
Cover
Titlepage
Text
—Done into English Verse—
by BERNARD MIALL
Methuen & Co. Ltd.
36 Essex Street W.C.
London
1915
Translator's Preface
I
Once in a generation an author surpasses the bounds of nationality. Of such cosmopolitan artists Maurice Maeterlinck is perhaps the most shining example. Twenty years ago I was vainly endeavouring to interest English publishers in his plays. To-day I am asked to produce a version of one of his earlier and less familiar works, because the time is approaching for that monument to his fame which so few writers enjoy in their lifetime—namely, the complete edition. He is not a Belgian writer merely or chiefly; above all he is an English, an American author. His readers in England and the United States far outnumber those who read the original French. His books are published in England and America almost as soon as they appear in France and Belgium, and in at least one case the English publication was the earlier. More and more do his lovers demand every word that his pen has formed. Sooner or later, therefore, it was inevitable that these Poems
should appear in translation.
II
The poems contained in this volume form part of a movement long defunct—the Belgian Symbolist movement, an offshoot of that Belgian renascence which produced so remarkable a body of great and noble poetry. I cannot say, however, that perusal of the other poets of the period will assist the reader to appreciate the volume in hand. Eekhoud, Elskamp, Gilkin, Rodenbach, Verhaeren—none of these wrote verse which could possibly be confounded with that of Maeterlinck; twenty years ago the latter was no less original than he is to-day.
Many poets of the late nineteenth century were, without being symbolists, affected by the Symbolist movement—a movement very loosely named, since the actual symbolists connected with it could be counted on the fingers of one hand. More particularly were they influenced by the tendency to put music before matter, beauty before sense, which is expressed by the so familiar lines of Verlaine:
De la musique avant toute chose,
Et pour cela préfère l'Impair,
Plus vague et plus soluble dans l'air,
Sans rien en lui qui pèse ou pose...
De la musique encor