Maurice Maeterlinck (Critical Survey of Drama)
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Maurice Maeterlinck, in his first published work, Serres chaudes, poèmes (1889; Hot Houses, 1915), demonstrated his substantial abilities as a poet. Throughout his life, he continued to write chansons (lyrics in a folksong style) for collections and for inclusion in his plays. Maeterlinck’s prose, both in his plays and in his essays, always perches on the edge of verse in its rhythmic fluidity and rich imagery. Although he proved himself a lucid writer of expository prose with three scientific studies on bees, ants, and termites, it was in...
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