Iwan Gilkin

Iwan Gilkin (January 7, 1858 - September 28, 1924) was a Belgian poet. Born in Brussels, Gilkin was associated with the Symbolist school in Belgium. His works include "Les ténèbres" (1892, featuring a frontispiece by Odilon Redon) and "Le Sphinx" (1907). Linked with the development of the literary revue the "Parnasse de la Jeune Belgique", he was an early appreciator of the Comte de Lautréamont's infamous work, "Les Chants de Maldoror", and sent several copies of the book to his friends, including fellow poet Léon Bloy. [Resnkin, Salomon. "The Threatre of Dream." pg. 149. Routledge, 1987.] His mature works, which often concerned difficult religious and philosophical themes, reflect a highly pessimistic, spiritual and anti-positivistic outlook, influenced by Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Schopenhauer. ["Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature". pgs. 307-308. Columbia University Press, 1980.] A French-language study of Gilkin by Henri Liebrecht was published in 1941.

References

Bibliography

* "La Damnation de l'artiste" (1890)
* "Ténèbres" (1892)
* "Stances dorées" (1893)
* "La Nuit" (1893) [http://books.google.com/books?id=mxQwAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA267&#PPA3,M1]
* "Prométhée" (1897)
* "Le Cerisier fleuri" (1899)
* "Jonas" (1900)
* "Savonarole" (1906)
* "Étudiants russes" (1906)
* "Le Sphinx" (1907)
* "Le Roi Cophétua" (1919)
* "Les Pieds d'argile" (1921)
* "Egmont" (1926)

External Links

* [http://colecizj.easyvserver.com/vb8index.htm Online Book With Translations of Iwan Gilkin Poems by James Kirkup]