On May 31, 1889, a young Belgian lawyer from a wealthy bourgeois family in Ghent published a book of 33 poems in 155 copies. Maurice Maeterlinck's legal career was floundering but his road to literary greatness had begun. Long overshadowed by the plays that later won him the Nobel Prize, Serres chaudes (Hothouses) nonetheless came to be widely regarded as one of the cornerstones of literary Modernism after Baudelaire. While Max Nordau soon seized upon Maeterlinck's--tumult of images--as symptomatic of a pervasive social malaise, decades later Antonin Artaud pronounced,...
On May 31, 1889, a young Belgian lawyer from a wealthy bourgeois family in Ghent published a book of 33 poems in 155 copies. Maurice Maeterlinck's ...
Maurice Maeterlinck was a Belgian writer of poetry, a wide variety of essays, and symbolic dramas, including Pelleas et Melisande (1892). In 1911 he won the Nobel Prize for literature."
Maurice Maeterlinck was a Belgian writer of poetry, a wide variety of essays, and symbolic dramas, including Pelleas et Melisande (1892). In 1911 he w...
Maurice Maeterlinck was a Belgian writer of poetry, a wide variety of essays, and symbolic dramas, including Pelleas et Melisande (1892). In 1911 he won the Nobel Prize for literature."
Maurice Maeterlinck was a Belgian writer of poetry, a wide variety of essays, and symbolic dramas, including Pelleas et Melisande (1892). In 1911 he w...
