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Emile Verhaeren
Poems of Emile Verhaeren
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Table of Contents
POEMS
OF
EMILE VERHAEREN.
SELECTED
AND
RENDERED INTO ENGLISH
BY
ALMA STRETTELL.
POEMS
POEMS
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OF
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EMILE VERHAEREN.
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SELECTED
AND
RENDERED INTO ENGLISH
BY
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ALMA STRETTELL.
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JOHN LANE
THE BODLEY HEAD
LONDON & NEW YORK
1915.
Emile Verhaeren
INDEX
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
From LES VILLAGES ILLUSOIRES
RAIN
THE FERRYMAN
THE SILENCE
THE BELL-RINGER
THE SNOW
THE GRAVE-DIGGER
THE WIND
THE FISHERMEN
THE ROPE-MAKER
From LES HEURES CLAIRES
I.
VIII.
XVII.
XXI.
From LES APPARUS DANS MES CHEMINS
ST. GEORGE
THE GARDENS
SHE OF THE GARDEN
From LA MULTIPLE SPLENDEUR
THE GLORY OF THE HEAVENS
LIFE
JOY
INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
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Emile Verhaeren, remarkable among of the brilliant group of writers representing Young Belgium,
and one who has been recognized by the literary world of France as holding a foremost place among the lyric poets of the day was born at St. Amand, near Antwerp, in 1855. His childhood was passed on the banks of the Scheldt, in the midst of the wide-spreading Flemish plains, a country of mist and flood, of dykes and marshes, and the impressions he received from the mysterious, melancholy character of these surroundings, have produced a marked and lasting influence upon his work. Yet the other characteristics with which it is stamped—the wealth of imagination, the gloomy force, the wonderful descriptive power and sense of colour, which set the landscape before one as a picture, suggest rather the possibility of Spanish blood in the poet's veins—and again, his somewhat morbid subjectivity and tendency to self-analysis mark him as the child of the latter end of our nineteenth century.
Verhaeren entered early in life upon the literary career. After some time spent at a college in Ghent, he became a student at the University of Louvain, and here he founded and edited a journal called "La Semaine, in which work he was assisted by the singer Van Dyck, and by his friend and present publisher, Edmond Deman. He also formed, about this time, a close friendship with Maeterlinck. In 1881, Verhaeren was called to the Bar at Brussels, but soon gave up his legal career to devote himself entirely to literature. In 1883 he published his first volume of poems, and shortly afterwards became one of the editors of
L'Art Moderne," to which,