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Emile Verhaeren, Will Stone

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Arc Publications
14 January 2014

Poetry by individual poets; Languages & ESL; Poetry; French - Bilingual Reader; French - Reader; French - Languages

Verhaerens 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.

By: Emile Verhaeren
Translated by: Will Stone
Imprint: Arc Publications
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 11mm
ISBN: 9781904614692
ISBN 10: 1904614698
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 14 January 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.