# Poems of Emile Verhaeren

Author: Verhaeren, Emile, 1855-1916; Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925 [Illustrator]; Strettell, Alma, 1856?-1939 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33792

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Poems+of+Emile+Verhaeren+Verhaeren&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Emile Verhaeren, remarkable among of the brilliant group of writers representing "Young Belgium," and one who has been recognized by the literary world of France as holding a foremost place among the lyric poets of the day was born at St. Amand, near Antwerp, in 1855. His childhood was passed on the banks of the Scheldt, in the midst of the wide-spreading Flemish plains, a country of mist and flood, of dykes and marshes, and the impressions he received from the mysterious, melancholy character of these surroundings, have produced a marked and lasting influence upon his work. Yet the other characteristics with which it is stamped--the wealth of imagination, the gloomy force, the wonderful...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poems-of-emile-verhaeren-33792/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poems-of-emile-verhaeren-33792/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poems-of-emile-verhaeren-33792/chapters/3/index.md)