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Charles van Lerberghe

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Charles van Lerberghe

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

  1. ^ Orledge (1979), p. 137
  2. ^ Michael Shaw (2019), The Fin-de-Siècle Scottish Revival: Romance, Decadence and Celtic Identity, Edinburgh University Press, p. 101

Sources

  • Orledge, Robert (1979). Gabriel Fauré. London: Eulenburg Books. ISBN 0-903873-40-0.

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