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Émile Adolphe Gustave Verhaeren (Dutch: [vərˈɦaːrən]; 21 May 1855 – 27 November 1916) was a Belgian poet and art critic who wrote in the French language. He was one of the founders of the school of Symbolism and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature on six occasions.
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4 days ago · Émile Verhaeren (born May 21, 1855, Saint Amand lez-Puers, Belg.—died Nov. 27, 1916, Rouen, France) was foremost among the Belgian poets who wrote in French. The vigour of his work and the breadth of his vision have been compared to those of Victor Hugo and Walt Whitman.
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Émile Verhaeren, né à Saint-Amand dans la province d'Anvers le 21 mai 1855 et mort à Rouen le 27 novembre 1916, est un poète belge flamand, d'expression française. Dans ses poèmes influencés par le symbolisme , où il pratique le vers libre , sa conscience sociale proche de l' anarchisme lui fait évoquer les grandes villes dont il ...
- Émile Adolphe Gustave Verhaeren
views 3,931,940 updated. Émile Verhaeren (āmēl´ vārärĕn´, vərhä´rən), 1855–1916, Belgian poet and critic, a Fleming who wrote in French.
Nov 27, 2016 · These lines from Emile Verhaeren’s poem ‘Plus loin que les gares, le soir’, with their evocation of a ‘slow parade of gloomy trains’ vanishing ‘like coffins’ into the distance, may be read as uncannily prophetic. Not only does it evoke the atmosphere of the stations throughout Europe where troop-trains would pull out to carry ...
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(1855–1916).One of the major figures of francophone Belgian literature and an important channel for Franco‐Belgian literary relationships, particularly during the Decadent and Symbolist periods, Verhaeren began by publishing descriptive ...
EMILE VERHAEREN. but Belgian. Of these, Maeterlinck, through translation. has become more familiar even than many prominent Eng lish writers, while Verhaeren, the more potent and creative ly the greater artist, is hardly more than a name to most readers. Yet he has introduced a new modality into poetry.
