Excerpt from Poems of Emile Verhaeren

Emile Verhaeren, remarkable among the brilliant group of writers representing "Young Belgium," and one who has been recognized by the literary world as holding a foremost place among the lyric poets of the day, was born at St. Amand, near Antwerp, in 1855. His childhood was passed on the banks of the Scheldt, in the midst of the wide-spreading Flemish plains, a country of mist and flood, of dykes and marshes, and the impressions he received from the mysterious, melancholy character of these surroundings have produced a marked and lasting influence upon his work. Yet the other characteristics with which it is stamped - the wealth of imagination, the wonderful descriptive power and sense of colour, which set the landscape before one as a picture - suggest rather the possibility of Spanish blood in the poet"s veins.

Verhaeren entered early in life upon the literary career. After some time spent at a college in Ghent, he became a student at the University of Louvain, and here he founded and edited a journal called La Semaine, in which work he was assisted by the singer Van Dyck, and by his friend, the publisher, Edmond Deman.

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