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EMILE See also:VERHAEREN (1855– ) , Belgian poet, was See also:born at See also:Saint-Amand, near See also:Antwerp, on the 21st of May 1855 . He was sent to school at See also:Ghent, where he formed a friendship with Georges Rodenbach . He studied at the university of See also:Louvain, and there started a See also:journal, La Semaine, which he edited in See also:conjunction with the operatic See also:singer See also:Van Dyck . La Semaine was suppressed by the authorities, as was its successor, Le Type, in which See also:Verhaeren had as See also:fellow-workers Max See also:Waller, Iwan Gilkin and See also:Albert See also:Giraud . In 1881 he was admitted to the See also:bar at See also:Brussels, but he soon devoted his whole energies to literature, and especially to the See also:organs of " See also:young See also:Belgium," La Jeune Belgique and L'See also:Art moderne, making himself especially the See also:champion of the impressionist painters . Verhaeren learnt his art of See also:poetry from the See also:great Flemish artists, and in his See also:early robust See also:works, See also:Les Flamandes (1883) and Les Moines (1886), he displays similar qualities of strength, sometimes degenerating into violence . A See also:period of See also:physical weakness followed, translated into terms of poetry in three volumes of See also:verse, Les Soirs (1887), Les Debacles (1888) and Les Flambeaux noirs (1889) . Au bord de la route (189o) and Les Apparus Bans See also:mes Chemins (1891) followed . Verhaeren then passed from applying his pictorial method to psychological studies to the task of individualizing the towns, villages and See also:fields of his native See also:country, the first outcome being his Campagnes hallucinees (1893) . In Villages illusoires he describes the tragedy of the fields and farms deserted by the See also:people in their See also:race to the towns, and in Les Villes tentaculaires (1895) the great See also:industrial centres devouring the surrounding country . Later volumes of poems are Les Heures claires (1896), Les Visages de la See also:vie (1899), Les Petites Legendes (1900), Les Forces tumultueuses (19o1); Les Tendresses premieres (1904) . In 1898 he wrote a lyric See also:drama Les Aubes, in 1900 a four-See also:act piece Le Cloitre, represented both in Brussels and See also:Paris, and in 1901 a See also:historical drama Philippe II . The poems of Emile Verhaeren were translated into See also:English by See also:Alma Strettel (1899); and Les Aubes by Mr See also:Arthur See also:Symons (1898) . A See also:long See also:list of articles dealing with Verhaeren is to be found in Poetes d'Aujourd'hui (1900) of A. van Bever and See also:Paul Leautaud . VERKHNE-UDINSK, a See also:town of See also:Asiatic See also:Russia, in See also:East See also:Siberia, See also:province of See also:Transbaikalia, on the right See also:bank of the Uda, at its confluence with the Selenga, 102 M. by See also:rail E. of See also:Lake See also:Baikal, to which steamers ply . Pop . (1883) 4130; (1897) 8002 . It was founded as a small fort in 1668, and is a centre for the overland See also:trade in See also:tea with See also:China, and an See also:emporium both for See also:grain and See also:animal products, exported, and for metals, machinery and manufactured goods, imported . Its yearly See also:fair is of great importance . |
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