- Georges Rodenbach
Georges Raymond Constantin Rodenbach (July 16, 1855 in
Tournai ,Belgium – December 25, 1898 inParis ) was a Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist.Biography
Georges Rodenbach was born in
Tournai and went to school inGhent at the prestigiousSint-Barbaracollege , where he became friends with the poetEmile Verhaeren . Rodenbach worked as a lawyer and journalist. He spent the last ten years of his life in Paris as the correspondent of the "Journal de Bruxelles", and was an intimate ofEdmond de Goncourt . He published eight collections of verse and four novels, as well as short stories, stage works and criticism. He produced some Parisian and purely imitative work; but a major part of his production is the outcome of a passionate idealism of the quiet Flemish towns in which he had passed his childhood and early youth. In his best known work, "Bruges-la-Morte " (1892), he explains that his aim is to evoke the town as a living being, associated with the moods of the spirit, counselling, dissuading from and prompting action.Works
* "Le Foyer et les Champs" (1877), poetry
* "Les Tristesses" (1879), poetry
* "La Belgique 1830-1880" (1880), historic poem
* "La Mer élégante" (1881), poetry
* "L'Hiver mondain" (1884)
* "Vers d'amour" (1884)
* "La Jeunesse blanche" (1886), poetry
* "Du Silence" (1888)
* "L'Art en exil" (1889)
* "Bruges-la-Morte " (1892)
* "Le Voyage dans les yeux" (1893)
* "Le Voile", drama
* "L'Agonie du soleil" (1894)
* "Musée de béguines" (1894)
* "Le Tombeau de Baudelaire" (1894)
* "La Vocation" (1895)
* "A propos de "Manette Salomon". L'Œuvre des Goncourt" (1896)
* "Les Tombeaux" (1896)
* "Les Vierges" (1896)
* "Les Vies encloses" (1896), poem
* "Le Carillonneur " (1897)
* "Agonies de villes" (1897)
* "Le Miroir du ciel natal" (1898)
* "Le Mirage" (1900)External links
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