Serres chaudes

Infobox Book
name = Hothouses
title_orig = Serres chaudes
translator = Richard Howard


image_caption = The cover of the English language version of Maurice Maeterlinck's "Serres chaudes", translated as "Hothouses".
author = Maurice Maeterlinck
illustrator = Georges Minne
cover_artist = Lisa Clark
country = Belgium
language = French
genre = Poetry
publisher = Vanier
release_date = 1889
english_release_date = 2003
pages = Approx. 108
isbn = Hardcover: 0-691-08837-3 Paperback: 0-691-08839-1

"Serres chaudes" ("Hothouses" or "Hot House Blooms") (1889) is a book of symbolist poetry by Belgian Nobel Laureate Maurice Maeterlinck. Most of the poems in this collection are written in octosyllabic verse, but some are in free verse.

Poems

#"Serre chaude"
#"Oraison (I)"
#"Serre d'ennui"
#"Tentations"
#"Cloches de verre"
#"Offrande obscure"
#"Feuillage du cœur"
#"Âme chaude"
#"Âme"
#"Lassitude"
#"Chasses lasses"
#"Fauves las"
#"Oraison (II)"
#"Heures ternes"
#"Ennui"
#"Hôpital"
#"Oraison nocturne"
#"Désirs d'hiver"
#"Ronde d'ennui"
#"Amen"
#"Cloche à plongeur"
#"Aquarium"
#"Verre ardent"
#"Reflets"
#"Visions"
#"Oraison (III)"
#"Regards"
#"Attente"
#"Après-midi"
#"Âme de serre"
#"Intentions"
#"Attouchements"
#"Âme de nuit"

English translations

"Serres chaudes" has been translated into English by Richard Howard. This edition, published by Princeton University Press also contains a short prose work, "The Massacre of the Innocents", inspired by a Brueghel that appeared in the original volume.

Trivia

"Serre chaude," "Serre d'ennui," "Lassitude," "Fauves las," and "Oraison" were all set to music by French composer Ernest Chausson. "Feuillage du cœur" was set to music by Arnold Schoenberg under the name "Herzgewächse" and by the Belgian composer Serge Verstockt (original title).

References

*Maeterlinck, Maurice (2003). "Hothouses: Poems 1889." Trans. Richard Howard. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691088373 , ISBN 0-691-08838-1.

External links

* [http://www.kellscraft.com/maeterlinckbioch2.html Chapter II of Edward Thomas' "Maurice Materlinck", entitled "First Poems:"Serres Chaudes"]