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HASSELT, See also:
ANDRE, JOHN (1751-178o)
ANDRE See also:
HENRI
HENRI See also:
CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)
CONSTANT See also:
VAN
VAN (1806—1874) , Belgian poet, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

MAASTRICHT, or MAESTRICI3T

Maastricht, in See also:

Limburg, on the 5th of See also:

JANUARY

January 18o6. He was educated in his native See also:

TOWN

town, and at the university of See also:

Liege. In 1833 he See also:

LEFT

left Maastricht, then blockaded by the Belgian forces, and made his way to See also:

BRUSSELS (Fr. Bruxelles, Flem. Brussel)

Brussels, where he became a naturalized Belgian, and was attached to the Bibliotheque de Bourgogne. In 1843 he entered the See also:

EDUCATION

education See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department, and eventually became an inspector of normal See also:

SCHOOLS

schools. His native See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language was Dutch, and as a See also:

French poet Andre van Hasselt had to overcome the difficulties of See also:

writing in a See also:

FOREIGN

foreign language. He had published a See also:

CHANT (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. cantare, to sing; an old form is " chaunt ")

Chant hellenique in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of Canaris in the columns of La Sentinelle See also:

des Pays-Bas as See also:

early as 1826, and other poems followed. His first See also:

VOLUME

volume of See also:

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, Prirneveres (1834), shows markedly the See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of See also:

Victor See also:

Hugo, which had been strengthened by a visit to See also:

Paris in 183o. His relations with Hugo became intimate in 1851—1852, when the poet was an See also:

EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

exile in Brussels. In 1839 he became editor of the See also:

RENAISSANCE, THE

Renaissance, a See also:

paper founded to encourage the See also:

FINE

fine arts. His See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

WORK

work, the epic of the Quatre Incarnations du See also:

Christ, was published in 1867. In the same volume were printed his Etudes rythmiques, a See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of, metrical experiments designed to show that the French language could be adapted to every See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of musical See also:

RHYTHM (Greek pvBµds, from bap, to flow)

rhythm. With the same end in view he executed See also:

TRANSLATIONS

translations of many See also:

German songs, and wrote new French libretti for the best-known operas of See also:

MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS1 (1756–1791)

Mozart, See also:

Weber and others.

Hasselt died at See also:

SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint Josse ten Noode, a suburb of Brussels, on the 1st of See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1874. A selection from his See also:

WORKS

works (io vols., Brussels, 1876–1877) was edited by MM. See also:

Charles See also:

Hen and See also:

Louis Alvin. He wrote many books for See also:

CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children, chiefly under the See also:

PSEUDONYM (Gr. >l ev&,vuµos, having a false name, ¢Evirls, false and ovoµa, name)

pseudonym of See also:

ALFRED

Alfred Avelines; and studies on See also:

HISTORICAL

historical and See also:

LITERARY

literary subjects. The books written in collaboration with Charles I-Ien are signed Charles Andre. A bibliography of his writings is appended to the See also:

NOTICE

notice by Louis Alvin in the Biographic nat. de Belgique, vol. vii. Van Hasselt's fame has continued to increase since his See also:

DEATH

death. A series of tributes to his memory are printed in the Poesies choisies (1901), edited by M. Georges Barral for the Collection des poetes See also:

FRANCAIS, ANTOINE, COUNT (1756-1836)

francais de l'etranger. This See also:

BOOK

book contains a See also:

BIOGRAPHICAL

biographical and See also:

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical study by Jules See also:

Guillaume, and some valuable notes on the poet's theories of rhythm.

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