Charles van Lerberghe
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Charles van Lerberghe (21 October 1861 at Ghent, Belgium, died 26 October 1907 in Brussels) was a Flemish (Belgian) symbolist poet writing in French. He was a member of La Jeune Belgique movement.
His poetry was set by Gabriel Fauré in the song cycles La chanson d'Ève and Le jardin clos.[1] His macabre drama Les Flaireurs was translated into English by the Scottish writer and critic William Sharp and published as The Night-Comers in The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal: Book of Autumn in 1895.[2]
References
Sources
- Orledge, Robert (1979). Gabriel Fauré. London: Eulenburg Books. ISBN 0-903873-40-0.
External links
Media related to Charles Van Lerberghe at Wikimedia Commons
French Wikisource has original text related to this article: Charles Van Lerberghe
- Works by or about Charles van Lerberghe at Internet Archive
- Biography at Literair Gent (in Dutch)
- Biography, on the website of the University of Liège (in French)