Emile Verhaeren / The Tumultuous Forces Poems 1922 Superb Portrait Etching

Description: VERHAEREN (Emile)1855-1916Émile VerhaerenÉmile Adolphe Gustave Verhaeren, born in Saint-Amand in the province of Antwerp (Belgium), May 21, 1855 and died (accidentally) in Rouen on November 27, 1916, is a Flemish Belgian poet, of French expression. In his poems influenced by symbolism, where he practices free verse, his social consciousness close to anarchism makes him evoke the great cities of which he speaks lyrically in a tone of great musicality. He knew how to translate the beauty of human effort into his work.BiographyVerhaeren was born in Saint-Amand in Belgium, on the banks of the Scheldt, into a wealthy family where French was spoken, while Flemish was spoken in the village and at school. He first attended the French-speaking Sainte-Barbe boarding school, run by Jesuits in Ghent, then he studied law at the Catholic University of Louvain. It was there that he met the circle of writers who animated La JEUNE Belgique and in 1879 he published the first articles of his own. in student magazines.Every week, the socialist writer Edmond Picard held a salon in Brussels where the JEUNE Verhaeren was able to meet avant-garde writers and artists. It was then that he decided to give up a legal career and become a writer. He published poems and critical articles in Belgian and foreign magazines, including L'Art moderne and La JEUNE Belgique. As an art critic, he supported young artists such as James Ensor.In 1883, he published his first collection of realist-naturalist poems, Les Flamandes, dedicated to his native country. Welcomed with enthusiasm by the avant-garde, the work caused a scandal in his native country. His parents even tried with the help of the village priest to buy the entire print run and destroy it. The scandal had been an unacknowledged goal of the poet, in order to become known more quickly. However, he subsequently continued to publish other books of poetry. Symbolist poems with a lugubrious tone characterize these collections, Les Moines, Les Soirs, The Debacles and The Black Flambeaux.In 1891, he married Marthe Massin, a painter known for her watercolors, whom he had met two years earlier, and settled in Brussels. His love for her is expressed in three collections of love poems: The Clear Hours, The Afternoon Hours and The Evening Hours.In the 1890s, Verhaeren became interested in social issues and launched into the "anarchist revolt". His social involvement appears clearly in articles and poems published in the libertarian press (L'En-dehors, Le Libertaire, La Revue blanche, etc.) and especially in unfinished and unpublished manuscripts, such as the play La Grand-Route and the novel Désiré Menuiset and his cousin Oxyde Placard He worked to convey in his poems the atmosphere of the big city and its opposite, life in the countryside. He expressed his visions of a new time in collections such as Les Campagnes hallucinées, Les Villes tentaculaires, Les Villages illusoires and in his play Les Aubes. These poems made him famous, and his work was translated and commented on throughout the world. He traveled to give readings and lectures throughout much of Europe. Many artists, poets and writers like Antonio de La Gandara, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, August Vermeylen, Léon Bazalgette, Henry van de Velde, Max Elskamp, Maurice Maeterlinck, Stéphane Mallarmé, André Gide, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gostan Zarian and Stefan Zweig admired him, corresponded with him, sought to associate with him and translated him. Artists linked to futurism were subject to its influence. Émile Verhaeren was also a personal friend of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth; he regularly visited all the residences of the royal family.In 1914 the First World War broke out and, despite its neutrality, Belgium was occupied almost entirely by German troops. Verhaeren took refuge in England. He wrote pacifist poems and fought against the madness of war in the lyric anthologies: Bloody Belgium, Among the Ashes and The Red Wings of War. His faith in a better future was tinged during the conflict with a growing resignation. He nevertheless published anti-German propaganda in magazines and tried in his conferences to strengthen the friendship between France, Belgium and the United Kingdom. On November 27, 1916, he went to visit the ruins of the Jumièges abbey. In the evening, after giving another lecture in Rouen, he died accidentally, having been pushed by the large crowd under the wheels of a departing train.The French government wanted to honor him by burying him in the Pantheon, but the family refused. and had him buried in the Adinkerque military cemetery. Due to the danger represented by the advancing troops, his remains were still transferred during the war to Wulveringem before being definitively buried in 1927 in his native village of Saint-Amand where since 1955 a museum, the Émile Verhaeren provincial museum, recalls his memory.-Emile VERHAERENThe tumultuous forcesWith a superb portrait of the authoras a frontispiece, etched by Pierre GANDONPreserved snake- The decorative compositions, inserts, headers and ends were designed by Paul Colin, Maurice de Becque, Paul Baudier and P.-E. Vibert Paris, Georges Crès et Cie, 1922 (November 11)Collection: "The Masters of the Book".-100- In-8 square, 188pp., Paperback, as published, beige-cream cover printed in black, filled (faded color on dishes in places-solarization, otherwise Good condition, clean, minimal marks or friction, good general condition) Beautiful copy, clean and fresh inside,without annotations or inscriptions.see visuals...Charming work printed with great care -As always combined shipping costs when purchasing several books... He expressed his visions of a new time in collections such as Les Campagnes hallucinées, Les Villes tentaculaires, Les Villages illusoires and in his play Les Aubes. These poems made him famous, and his work was translated and commented on throughout the world. He traveled to give readings and lectures throughout much of Europe. Many artists, poets and writers like Antonio de La Gandara, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, August Vermeylen, Léon Bazalgette, Henry van de Velde, Max Elskamp, Maurice Maeterlinck, Stéphane Mallarmé, André Gide, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gostan Zarian and Stefan Zweig admired him, corresponded with him, sought to associate with him and translated him. Artists linked to futurism were subject to its influence. Émile Verhaeren was also a personal

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