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VERHAEREN, EMILE (1855– )

VERHAEREN, EMILE (1855– ) , Belgian poet, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint-Amand, near See also:

Antwerp, on the 21st of May 1855. He was sent to school at See also:

GHENT (Flem. Gent, Fr. Gand)

Ghent, where he formed a friendship with Georges Rodenbach. He studied at the university of See also:

LOUVAIN (Flem. Leuven)

Louvain, and there started a See also:

journal, La Semaine, which he edited in See also:

CONJUNCTION (from Lat. conjungere, to join together)

conjunction with the operatic See also:

SINGER, SIMEON (1846-1906)

singer See also:

Van Dyck. La Semaine was suppressed by the authorities, as was its successor, Le Type, in which Verhaeren had as See also:

FELLOW

fellow-workers Max See also:

Waller, Iwan Gilkin and See also:

Albert See also:

GIRAUD, GIOVANNI, COUNT (1776-1834)

Giraud. In 1881 he was admitted to the See also:

bar at See also:

BRUSSELS (Fr. Bruxelles, Flem. Brussel)

Brussels, but he soon devoted his whole energies to literature, and especially to the See also:

ORGANS

organs of " See also:

young See also:

Belgium," La Jeune Belgique and L'See also:

Art moderne, making himself especially the See also:

CHAMPION (Fr. champion, Late Lat. campio from campus; a field or open space, i.e. one " who takes the field " or fights; cf. Ger. Kampf, battle, and Kampfer, fighter)

champion of the impressionist painters. Verhaeren learnt his art of See also:

POETRY

poetry from the See also:

GREAT

great Flemish artists, and in his See also:

early robust See also:

WORKS

works, See also:

Les Flamandes (1883) and Les Moines (1886), he displays similar qualities of strength, sometimes degenerating into violence. A See also:

period of See also:

PHYSICAL

physical weakness followed, translated into terms of poetry in three volumes 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, Les Soirs (1887), Les Debacles (1888) and Les Flambeaux noirs (1889). Au bord de la route (189o) and Les Apparus Bans See also:

mes Chemins (1891) followed. Verhaeren then passed from applying his pictorial method to psychological studies to the task of individualizing the towns, villages and See also:

FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS (1817-1881)

fields of his native See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, the first outcome being his Campagnes hallucinees (1893). In Villages illusoires he describes the tragedy of the fields and farms deserted by the See also:

PEOPLE

people in their See also:

RACE

race to the towns, and in Les Villes tentaculaires (1895) the great See also:

INDUSTRIAL

industrial centres devouring the surrounding country. Later volumes of poems are Les Heures claires (1896), Les Visages de la See also:

vie (1899), Les Petites Legendes (1900), Les Forces tumultueuses (19o1); Les Tendresses premieres (1904). In 1898 he wrote a lyric See also:

DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama Les Aubes, in 1900 a four-See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act piece Le Cloitre, represented both in Brussels and See also:

Paris, and in 1901 a See also:

HISTORICAL

historical drama Philippe II.

The poems of Emile Verhaeren were translated into See also:

ENGLISH

English by See also:

ALMA

Alma Strettel (1899); and Les Aubes by Mr See also:

Arthur See also:

Symons (1898). A See also:

long See also:

list of articles dealing with Verhaeren is to be found in Poetes d'Aujourd'hui (1900) of A. van Bever and See also:

Paul Leautaud. VERKHNE-UDINSK, a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

ASIATIC

Asiatic See also:

Russia, in See also:

East See also:

SIBERIA

Siberia, See also:

province of See also:

TRANSBAIKALIA (sometimes also known as Muria)

Transbaikalia, on the right See also:

BANK

bank of the Uda, at its confluence with the Selenga, 102 M. by See also:

RAIL

rail E. of See also:

Lake See also:

BAIKAL (known to the Mongols as Dalai-nor, and to the Turkish tribes as Bai-kul)

Baikal, to which steamers ply. Pop. (1883) 4130; (1897) 8002. It was founded as a small fort in 1668, and is a centre for the overland See also:

trade in See also:

TEA (Chinese cha, Amoy dialect t€)

tea with See also:

CHINA

China, and an See also:

EMPORIUM (a Latin adaptation of the Gr. Eµabpuov, from f)

emporium both for See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain and See also:

animal products, exported, and for metals, machinery and manufactured goods, imported. Its yearly See also:

FAIR

fair is of great importance.

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