| Author: | Emile Verhaeren | ISBN: | 9781908376558 |
| Publisher: | Arc Publications | Publication: | December 12, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Arc Publications | Language: | English |
| Author: | Emile Verhaeren |
| ISBN: | 9781908376558 |
| Publisher: | Arc Publications |
| Publication: | December 12, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Arc Publications |
| Language: | English |
Dubbed the 'European Walt Whitman' Emile Verhaeren is a proEuropean idealist, whose poetry explores his overriding notion of mankind advancing to a promised land where vital creative energies and new technology could combine to produce a more progressive human strain, a hope ignominiously swept away by the industrial brutality of the First World War. And yet, to return to the poetry of Verhaeren now is to reappraise a master poet who consistently exhibits sublime visionary gift as well as his all too contemporary human vulnerability in some of the most tender and beautiful love poems ever written.
Dubbed the 'European Walt Whitman' Emile Verhaeren is a proEuropean idealist, whose poetry explores his overriding notion of mankind advancing to a promised land where vital creative energies and new technology could combine to produce a more progressive human strain, a hope ignominiously swept away by the industrial brutality of the First World War. And yet, to return to the poetry of Verhaeren now is to reappraise a master poet who consistently exhibits sublime visionary gift as well as his all too contemporary human vulnerability in some of the most tender and beautiful love poems ever written.
