Le Foyer et les champs

poetry by Rodenbach

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Le Foyer et les champs ("The Hearth and the Fields") is the first collection of verse by Belgian Symbolist poet Georges Rodenbach, published in 1877. The poetry in this collection was inspired by scenes from his native country. Rodenbach's work often evokes the landscape of Flanders and the interior world of a self-absorbed mind. He was a key figure in the Belgian literary renaissance movement, La Jeune Belgique.1

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Georges Rodenbach
His first collection of verse, Le Foyer et les champs (“The Hearth and the Fields”), was published in 1877. He returned from Paris to Brussels to practice law, but he later renounced the profession to devote himself to the Belgian literary renaissance movement known by the name of an influential…
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His first collection of verse, Le Foyer et les champs (“The Hearth and the Fields”), was published in 1877. He returned from Paris to Brussels to practice law, but he later renounced the profession to devote himself to the Belgian literary renaissance movement known by the name of an influential…
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