Written while its subject was still alive, this study follows Maeterlinck from his Flemish upbringing and Jesuit schooling to his debut among the Paris Symbolists. Bithell discusses the hothouse poems, the uncanny early plays such as Princess Maleine, the mystical essays on the inner life and the later popular works, quoting liberally from the French.
A readable early guide to a writer who fascinated the whole of Europe before 1914, by a scholar of modern Continental poetry. Download the free EPUB.