Poets

A poet or is a person who through writing or words expresses emotions, feelings or sensations.

Georges Rodenbach:

Rodenbach was born in Tournai in an aristocratic family of German descent. His father was an official of the Ministry of the Interior, auditor of weights and measures his paternal grandfather, a surgeon and eminent, venerable deputy of the Masonic lodge of Bruges "La Réunion des Amis du Nord", one of the founders of modern Belgium. For his paternal grandmother he was descended from the German romantic poet Christoph Martin Wieland. He spent his childhood in Ghent, where his family settled in 1855. And in that same city he stood out as a student of his Law School and struck up a friendship with the poet Émile Verhaeren.

He was sent by his father to perfect his studies in Paris, but there he frequented mainly the literary circles before returning and settling in Brussels. There he worked as a lawyer in the law firm of Edmond Picard and as a journalist.

In 1877 he published his first collection of verses, Le Foyer et les Champs. In 1878 he spent another season in Paris, where he was a regular in the circle of Hydropaths. There he knotted his first Parisian relations: Catulle Mendès, François Coppée, Maurice Barrès, Edmond de Goncourt, Joris Karl Huysmans ... Friendships that he will frequent until the end of his days, although he also friends with many painters and sculptors, defending in Special in Le Figaro to Auguste Rodin.

Georges Raymond Constantin Rodenbach (July 16, 1855 in Tournai, Belgium - December 25, 1898 in Paris) was a poet and novelist of Belgian symbolism.

The secluded lives, by Georges Rodenbach

The lines of the hand

The hand prides itself on its naked calm

and of being pink and smooth; from the air play

like a bird mocking the foam of the sea;

and to shudder with the docility of the palm.

The hand exults; she is proud as a rose

without thinking that the reverse is a network of brands!

and the sun shines its polished long nails,

Embedding a little pink coral in the flesh.

The hand reigns, with imperial air, because everything

it is done through it, everything rotates through it.

For the nest of pleasure is a swallow;

and it is the August grape for the wine of joy.

Other works

Le Foyer et les Champs (1877), poema
Les Tristesses (1879), poema
La Belgique 1830-1880 (1880), poema
La Mer élégante (1881), poema
L'Hiver mondain (1884)
Vers d'amour (1884)
La Jeunesse blanche (1886), poema
Du Silence (1888)
L'Art en exil (1889)
Bruges-la-Morte (1892) (Brujas la Muerta, Tr. Fruela Fernández, Vaso Roto, 2011)
Le Voyage dans les yeux (1893)
Le Voile, drama
L'Agonie du soleil (1894)
Musée de béguines (1894)
Le Tombeau de Baudelaire (1894)
La Vocation (1895)
A propos de "Manette Salomon". L'Œuvre des Goncourt (1896)
Les Tombeaux (1896)
Les Vierges (1896)
Les Vies encloses (1896), poema
Le Carillonneur (1897)
Agonies de villes (1897)
Le Miroir du ciel natal (1898)
Le Mirage (1900)

Maurice Carême:

Carême was born on May 12, 1899 in Wavre (Belgium), then a rural part of Belgium. Although he grew up in a family of modest means (his father was a painter and his mother a merchant), Carême had a happy childhood, which would be reflected in his works.

Mauricio Carême was schooled in his hometown and, in 1914, he received a scholarship to attend the normal school in Tienen. It was at this time that he began to write poetry. In 1918, Carême graduated as an institutor and was assigned a position as a primary school teacher in Anderlecht, part of Brussels.

Carême's poetry gradually acquired a greater place in his life and, in 1943, he renounced his teaching profession to dedicate himself completely to writing. Mauricio Carême died on January 13, 1978 in Anderlecht. According to his request, he was buried in Wavre. His home in Anderlecht, "la maison Blanche", is now the site of the Maurice Carême Museum.

The slice of bread

A lonely child, Solitaire,

in his hand, a slice of bread.

A boy alone, with a dog

who looks at him like a god

I had in his hand

the key to can paradise.

A child alone

who bites his slice of bread,

and to which the whole world returns

to see him give, naturally,

Even if you die of hunger,

smeared butter

his dog gives half the bread.

Other works

63 illustrations pour un jeu de l’oie (1925)
Hôtel bourgeois (1930)
Chansons pour Caprine (Édiciones Henriquez, 1930)
Reflets d’hélices (1932)
Mère (1935)
Petite Flore (1937, Prix Edgar Poe)
La Lanterne Magique (1947)
La Maison Blanche (1949, Prix de l’Académie française)
Petites Légendes (1949)
La voix du silence (1951)
L’eau passe (1952, Prix International Syracuse, Prix de l’Académie française)
Semeur de rêves (1953)
Images Perdues (1954)
Heure de grâce (1957, Prix Félix Denayer, Premio de poésia religiosa)
L'Orphelin (1958)
L'Oiseleur (1959)
La Flûte au verger (1960)
La Grange Bleue (1961)
Pomme de reinette (1962)
Bruges (1963)
En sourdine 1964)
La Bien-aimée (1965)
Brabant (1967, Premio de la provincia de Brabant)
Le Sablier (1969)
Entre deux mondes (1970)
L'Arlequin (1970)
Mer du Nord (1971)
L'Envers du miroir (1973)
Le Moulin de papier (1973)
Almanach du ciel (1973)
De Feu et de Cendre (Ed. Nathan, 1974)
Complaintes (1975)