Verhaeren, Emile Adolphe Gustave
(1855–1916)
Verhaeren, Emile Adolphe GustaveVerhaeren, Emile Adolphe GustaveEmile Adolphe Gustave Verhaeren (B * SAINT-AMAND-LEZ-PUERS (SUR-ESCAUT), 1855 – D † ROUEN, 1916) Belgian Symbolist poet. He studied both law and medicine. He then became active in »La Jeune Belgique« literary movement, along with Albert Giraud (1860 – 1929), who wrote »Pierrot Lunaire: Rondels bergamasques,« (1884) memorably set to music (in 1912 in a German translation) by Schoenberg (1874 – 1951). Verhaeren's early works are…