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La Jeune Belgique
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La Jeune Belgique, (âYoung Belgiumâ), influential review (1881â97), edited by poet and novelist Max Waller; it gave its name to a literary movement (though never a formal âschoolâ) that aimed to express a genuinely Belgian consciousness and to free the literature of Belgium from outworn Romanticism. Among writers associated with the movement were Maurice Maeterlinck, Ămile Verhaeren, and Max Elskampâall poets of international stature.
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