Emile Verhaeren was een Belgische dichter en een van de belangrijkste grondleggers van het Symbolisme, die in het Frans schreef. Zijn vroege werk beschreef levendig en provocerend zijn land en de Vlaamse bevolking met een naturalistische directheid, wat onmiddellijk succes oogstte in avant-gardistische kringen, maar ook controverse opriep. Geïnspireerd door beeldende kunstenaars, verkende zijn poëzie vaak de donkerdere aspecten van het leven en de maatschappij. Ondanks persoonlijke crises en gezondheidsproblemen produceerde hij een omvangrijk oeuvre dat gekenmerkt wordt door een krachtig gevoel voor beeldspraak en innerlijke ervaring.
This collection of poetry by the Belgian symbolist poet Emile Verhaeren explores the themes of love, nature, and spirituality in a series of powerful, evocative works. Written in Verhaeren's distinctive style, characterized by vibrant imagery and intense emotion, this collection is a testament to the enduring power of poetic expression.
In this collection of poems by Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren, Alma Strettell's translations achieve a delicate balance of fidelity to the original French and artful adaptation to the cadences of English. Accompanied by a striking portrait of Verhaeren by John Sargent, these poems offer readers a window into the mind and spirit of a truly original literary voice.
The poetry of Verhaeren reveals a master poet who consistently exhibits sublime visionary gifts as well as his all too contemporary human vulnerability in some of the most tender and beautiful love poems ever written.
Émile Verhaeren (1855–1916), art critic, poet and homme de lettres, was a man whose vision transcended his native Belgium. With close ties to Mallarmé in France and Rilke in Germany, Verhaeren, a peripatetic student of the arts, readily traveled to Paris, Berlin, Cassel, Vienna and Amsterdam. From the mid-1880s until his death in 1916, his many trips abroad resulted in a raft of essays and short monographs on the arts of the Northern Renaissance. Yet, despite the insights, scholarship and markedly precise and revealing descriptions of these studies, they have long been neglected in art historical circles, overshadowed, perhaps, by Verhaeren’s own poetic outpourings and his numerous essays on contemporary art.In this book, Albert Alhadeff translates, edits, annotates and contextualizes these often brilliant and always revealing studies on artists such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Memling, Bruegel and Grünewald, masters from the North who worked mostly in Flanders, Holland and Germany in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As Alhadeff reveals, Verhaeren’s studies of the masters of old in Germany, Flanders and the newly born Dutch Republic are as much about Verhaeren the man as they are about the subjects of his inquiries.
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