Description
| Product ID: | 9781904614647 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Georges Rodenbach: Selected Poems |
| Authors: | Author: Georges Rodenbach |
| Page Count: | 114 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Bruges was Rodenbach's muse and poetic source, the landscape in which he attempted to reveal the significance of what appeared lifeless or unconnected to art. Using the symbolist devices of suggestion and mood, Rodenbach sifts the elements that make up the decaying Bruges which he sees as a medieval corpse laid out for him to 'rescue'. Georges Rodenbach was a leading literary figure during the epoch of symbolism in late nineteenth-century France and Belgium. This is the first-ever collection of Rodenbach''s poetry to be published in English translation. He is most famous for his fin-de-siècle novel Bruges-la-Morte (1892), but it is in the lesser-known collections of poetry that his mystical articulation of the ambiance of a decaying Bruges reaches its zenith. It is no surprise that, after his premature death in 1898, Rodenbach''s precise, poignant, delicate yet deceptively muscular poems attracted the likes of Rilke and Proust. These two exceptional diviners of the unacknowledged life secreted within objects and atmospheres, saw in him a fellow explorer, a wholly authentic and uncompromising voice, that articulated an interior landscape of the soul like no other. It is this voice that English-language readers today can now access through Will Stone''s sensitively attuned translation after decades of inexplicable neglect. |
| Imprint Name: | Arc Publications |
| Publisher Name: | Arc Publications |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-04-01 |
