Maurice Maeterlinck (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Maurice-Polydore-Marie-Bernard Maeterlinck (MA-tur-lihnk) was born in 1862 in Ghent, a city rich in the old Flemish tradition. Much has been made of the influence that the cloudy and brooding atmosphere of the Low Countries exercised on Maeterlinck’s more pessimistic works, an influence deriving from the constant tension between light and dark and expressed in the cloud-hung, sun-dappled landscapes of the seventeenth century Dutch painter Jacob van Ruisdael. An analysis of Maeterlinck’s works demonstrates the importance of these alternations of light and dark.
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