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Hothouses: Poems, 1889
Maurice Maeterlinck
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Paperback. Reflects the influence not only of French poets including Verlaine and Rimbaud, but also of Whitman. This title presents the poems, whose English translations appear opposite the French originals, which are accompanied by reproductions of seven woodcuts by Georges Minne that appeared in the original volume. Translator(s): Howard, Richard. Series: Facing Pages. Num Pages: 128 pages, 1 halftone. 7 line illus. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 7. Weight in Grams: 171.
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, "Maeterlinck was the first to introduce the multiple riches of the ... Read more
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, "Maeterlinck was the first to introduce the multiple riches of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Series
Facing Pages
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691088389
SKU
V9780691088389
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About Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862?1949) was a Belgian playwright and poet who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911. He wrote numerous plays including "Pelleas et Melisande" (1892), which later inspired an opera by Debussy. Richard Howard has translated over 150 works from the French and published 13 collections of his own poetry. In 1983 he received the American Book Award ... Read more
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