| 单词 | Maeterlinck |
| 例句 | Maeterlinck and Marais wrote best-selling books on the presumed soul that must exist somewhere in the nests of ants and termites. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There, he played the part of a girl in a production of Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird, a tale of two children seeking happiness with the aid of a fairy. John Hurt: Profile 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z While using the concert hall in a distinctive way, Mr. Sellars’s staging completely captures the human essence of Maurice Maeterlinck’s play, a love triangle of both ethereal delicacy and shocking violence. Review: Berlin Philharmonic’s ‘Pelléas et Mélisande’ Boldly Stretches Boundaries 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z The concert began beautifully with the Fauré — four pieces that composer wrote as incidental music for a performance of the Maeterlinck play of the same name. Review: Stéphane Denève Leads the Philharmonic in What Feels Like an Audition 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Baker’s signature hyper-realism makes room for an irrational dimension that lightly evokes the supernatural enigmas of Maurice Maeterlinck and August Strindberg. Annie Baker's 'Antipodes' opens a door to the coveted writers room 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z While this revival is a fascinating collector's item, it also demonstrates that Maeterlinck suffered the fate of many artistic revolutionaries – seeing his ideas absorbed into the mainstream. The Blind/The Intruder – review 2013-04-08T16:41:31Z The Neoimpressionists and the symbolist poets were close to the composer Gabriel Fabre, who put the words of Mallarmé, Verlaine and Maeterlinck to music. Neoimpressionism exhibit makes points about poetry, music's influence 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z In its original French, the opera is a luscious wallow in melancholy and opacity; its libretto, by Maurice Maeterlinck, verges on impenetrability in its portrayal of star-crossed love and fratricide. Critic?s Notebook: An Orphan, a Libertine and the Walking Dead 2011-06-19T22:11:24Z Based on a symbolist play by Maurice Maeterlinck, the opera is long, slow, mysterious and uneventful. Asian inspiration as L.A. Philharmonic tackles 'Pelléas'; Pacific Symphony 'Turandot' 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z I think Maeterlinck’s play is about those qualities.” ‘The Blind,’ Lera Auerbach’s Opera, Confronts Isolation 2013-07-05T17:16:44Z What Maeterlinck understood was that waiting is itself inherently dramatic. The Blind/The Intruder – review 2013-04-08T16:41:31Z A voracious reader who said learning makes her “feel alive,” she read Maeterlinck’s play after her parents sent her a copy. ‘The Blind,’ Lera Auerbach’s Opera, Confronts Isolation 2013-07-05T17:16:44Z Maeterlinck is worth revisiting—his elliptical dialogue looks ahead to the work of Samuel Beckett. The Velvet Revolution of Claude Debussy 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Like Ibsen and Maeterlinck he has had many things read into his music, mysticism not forgotten. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Mr. Hutton had undergone similar bombardments, mostly of a literary or philosophic character—bombardments of Maeterlinck, of Mrs. Besant, of Bergson, of William James. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z As often as there was a play of Shaw or Ibsen or Galsworthy or Maeterlinck or Shakespeare or Synge there were expeditions to peanut heaven. Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create 2012-04-03T02:00:30.247Z We may take refuge in Maeterlinck's poetical conception of the "spirit of the hive." Insect Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:36.600Z We have Maeterlinck, a poet writing of bees, Poincaré, a mathematician opening our eyes to the mystic gulfs of space; solid matters resolved into mist, and the law of gravitation questioned. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Maeterlinck has always been hostile to collectors of "copy," those great purveyors of the stuff that books are made of. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z This is very true, and put into bald language it means that Maeterlinck has succeeded in creating an artistic environment for his weird characters; it is the setting in which he has placed them. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z "Maeterlinck has come pretty close to it in Notre devoir social," Walter replied. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z The most interesting fact about the performance was that, included in the program by a strange stroke of irony, Maurice Maeterlinck's play L'Intruse made on this occasion its first appearance on the stage. Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art 2012-02-14T03:00:24.393Z Wagner wipes his spectacles, and Maurice Maeterlinck crushes a block of Belgian oaths between his powerful teeth. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z One poet Whitman's lawless line did directly influence; and this was Maeterlinck, whose rhymeless verse in Serres Chaudes was written under the inspiration of Leaves of Grass. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z They are Two Stories of Prague, The Touch of Life and The Last; three volumes of short stories; a two-act drama, The Daily Life, points to a strong Maeterlinck influence, and finally Stories of God. Poems 2012-01-19T03:00:23.447Z Maeterlinck says what almost everybody thinks, and says it as it has not been said before, not in "Rab and His Friends." The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z M. Maeterlinck, born a subject of King Leopold, belongs to French literature. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z "We wish to know why our brethren, the English playwrights, are not bidden to meet us?" said Maeterlinck, after gravely bowing to Ibsen. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The symbolist element among them was represented really by Saint-Pol-Roux and Maeterlinck. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z He is nowhere so significant a phenomenon to the curious student of musical development as in his setting of Maeterlinck's drama. Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries 2011-12-12T03:00:24.900Z Maeterlinck has knowledge of nature, not only such knowledge as Wordsworth had, but a fair acquaintance with contemporaneous science. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z It was treated solemnly, dreamily, phlegmatically, as a sort of cross between Maeterlinck and a 'mystery play.' Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z In the theatre there are numerous and vexing tendencies: Maeterlinck, loyally acknowledging his indebtedness to gentle Charles van Lerburghe, created a spiritual drama and has disciples; but the theatre is the theatre and resists innovation. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z On his return to Belgium, Maeterlinck spent his winters in Ghent, in the house of his parents; his summers in the family villa at the village of Oostacker. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Well, it is, after all, as Maeterlinck's Pell�as himself observes, a matter not so much for mirth as for lament; yet even more is it a matter for resignation. Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries 2011-12-12T03:00:24.900Z Maeterlinck, though overtaken by the wan doubt of our times, is a true believer in other kinds of intelligence than ours. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Probably the old-world story of Paphnutius and Thais inspired the tragedy and Maeterlinck's plays suggested its technique. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z Strangely enough, two names emerge victoriously from the confusing lyric symphony and they are those of Belgian-born poets—Emile Verhaeren, whose tragic death last year was a loss to literature, and Maurice Maeterlinck. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Maeterlinck in this story has simply turned an old picture, or perhaps several pictures, into words. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z There will always be, naturally enough, persons who must inevitably regard such a work as that for which he and Maeterlinck are now responsible as, for the most part, vain, inutile, even preposterous. Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries 2011-12-12T03:00:24.900Z Maeterlinck himself in "Our Eternity," dwells on this central ground. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Maeterlinck tells about it in his picturesque and dramatic style. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z As for Maeterlinck, he owes something to Emerson; but his mellow wisdom and clairvoyance are his own. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z At the time he wrote it Maeterlinck had covered the walls of his study with pictures taken from Walter Crane's books for children; and he had enhanced their effect by framing them under green-tinted glass. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Maeterlinck who has made use of the expression "too clever to sing well." Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Maeterlinck, on the basis of modern evidence, argues for two-hundred and fifty-eight pages that we do not know what happens when we die. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Maeterlinck observes of this, that the resultant "appears to rise, infallible and ready-done, from a sort of eternal and cosmic reservoir wherein the answer to every question lies dormant." Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z But literature refused to follow the example of the Belgian dreamer, and since the advent of the new century there has been a recrudescence of violence, a melodramatic violence, that must be disconcerting to Maeterlinck. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z To Maeterlinck, with reference to The Intruder, has been applied what Victor Hugo said to Baudelaire after he had read The Flowers of Evil: "You have created a new shudder." Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z In the present work the famous dramatic critic and biographer of Shaw has considered six representative dramatists outside of the United States, some living, some dead—Strindberg, Ibsen, Maeterlinck, Wilde, Shaw, Barker, and Schnitzler. More Portmanteau Plays 2011-11-11T03:00:27.887Z Maeterlinck is a great child playing with flowers and with words. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z So it is with the plays of M. Maeterlinck, only a few of which have been produced in the American theater. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Georgette Leblanc, later the wife of that great man of letters Maeterlinck. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z This only amounts to saying that Maeterlinck's method is less romantic than that of his friend. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z As long ago as 1891, in a lecture read before the Playgoers’ Club, he had given a very clever analysis of one of the most striking of M. Maeterlinck’s plays. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z He is also a competent workman, and he is assisted by another skilful craftsman to whom English readers owe much, Mr. Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, who translates Maeterlinck into English. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z We may even go further and suggest that there was a haunting and ethereal grace about Maeterlinck's 'Pell�as et M�lisande' which seemed almost to demand translation into the sister art of music. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Examine also the opening scene of Maeterlinck’s The Blind. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Huret made him talk, or says he did, when Maeterlinck took him into the beer-shop; and a few words of that interview will pass into every biography. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z So also, indeed, do those of the modern sage, Maeterlinck, for the Filipinos could have found their own Bluebird for happiness. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z "Swanwhite" is a fairy fantasy of love, confessedly inspired by Maeterlinck, yet in no sense an imitation of him. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z With nothing but candles it would be worse than a Maeterlinck play. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z Finally, Maeterlinck brought out his translation of the Spiritual Espousals in 1891 with a characteristic appreciation of the Flemish mystic. A Mediaeval Mystic A Short Account of the Life and Writings of Blessed John Ruysbroeck, Canon Regular of Groenendael A.D. 1293-1381 2011-06-14T02:00:22.820Z Maeterlinck was never absorbed by Ghent, as Rodenbach was by Bruges; but he was, as a young man, oppressed by some of its moods. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z This shows, as Maeterlinck says, "That the invisible justice that reposes in the moral life of every man" comes from God and His epistle, written on the secret tablets of the human soul. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z Maeterlinck is an amateur botanist and bee-keeper and a professional poet. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z He put Maeterlinck's "Blue Bird" on the table. Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z And Maeterlinck’s name has given a strong impetus to the popularity, so to speak, of Blessed Ruysbroeck in modern France. A Mediaeval Mystic A Short Account of the Life and Writings of Blessed John Ruysbroeck, Canon Regular of Groenendael A.D. 1293-1381 2011-06-14T02:00:22.820Z It is an immense pity that Maeterlinck did not write more in this fashion; many of us would have given some of his essays for this pure artistry. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z In cast of mind, Maeterlinck is sombrously meditative, and he has been wise in framing his outer existence so that it would accord with his habitual detachment. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z I also knew and argued with an eminent biologist who objected to Maeterlinck's "Life of the Bee," on the ground that the poetic phrasing falsified the facts. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z It was, perhaps, the fear that such drama of the mind would be impossible on the stage that made Maeterlinck write as sub-title to a book of plays, "Little Dramas for Marionettes." Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z As with Maeterlinck and Hinky Dink, the James Boys seemed to me to be fictitious figures; beings too wonderful to be true. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z It was certainly van Lerberghe's own idea that it was he who had trained Maeterlinck; and Maeterlinck would certainly admit it. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z When men like Maeterlinck are encountered in the world of practical affairs, they are bound to impress us as odd, because of this inversion of the ordinary policies of behavior. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z But for Maeterlinck to poetize the fact as a "nuptial flight" seemed to the man of science not only untruth to nature, but a blasphemy against the sacred love of man and woman. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z A perusal of Maeterlinck's "Les Sept Princesses" had taught her to use a speech whose power depends on its simplicity. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z De Musset wrote his plays, which he called proverbes, under the same influence, and later followers of this school are Rostand and the Belgian M. Maurice Maeterlinck. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z These questions of symbolism and free verse must have been discussed in the cénacle which Maeterlinck joined. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z His attitude of countenancing the positive joys of living causes Maeterlinck in his later career to reverse his former judgment, and to inveigh, much in the manner of Nietzsche, against the “parasitical virtues.” Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Following faithfully the run of our English idiom, he succeeds in keeping for our Anglo-Saxon eyes and ears the color, tone, or whatever it is, of Maeterlinck's beautiful style. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z He was the prophet of Mallarm�, of Verlaine, of Maeterlinck, of Huysmans, and at the same time he welcomed each younger revolutionary. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z And I've seen him on the stage—Maeterlinck, you know, with green lights and moaning, and that Russian fellow, Andreyeff, with no light at all, and hollering. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z The three plays which Maeterlinck published together in 1894 are such attempts at reconstruction. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z But Maeterlinck here goes a step beyond Ibsen. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Ruskin and Anatole France and Maeterlinck and Carlyle and Robert Morris and Emerson and Grierson are read with increasing satisfaction. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z He is the poet of retrospection, as Maeterlinck is the poet of introspection. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z The books of the poet's old age return to the days of his youth, to the school benches in Ghent where Maeterlinck also sat, the other great Fleming. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z It is known that his family was settled at Renaix in East Flanders as early as the fourteenth century; and the Maeterlincks are mentioned as burghers of Ghent in the annals of Flanders. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z But in spite of his twenty-five years' experience, Maeterlinck had no startling discoveries to convey to his fellow-hivers. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Maeterlinck, for instance, whose deductions would have been invaluable, was in France. A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z Maeterlinck, on the other hand, might have written equally well in Flemish. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z Maeterlinck has found it by listening to the mysticism of silence, Verhaeren by listening to the noise of life. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z But they themselves had their spurs to win; and it was the greatest good fortune for Maeterlinck that he was able to join their company and take part in their campaign. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Of the great change that had by now taken place in his conception of life, Maeterlinck was fully cognizant, and made no concealment of it. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z This comedy was undoubtedly inspired by the art of Maeterlinck at the time when the Belgian dramatist was writing such plays as “The Interlude.” Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z As Maeterlinck studied the bee, so Alcott studied his children, and his findings are a revelation, even to-day, when the study of the child has become a science. Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott From this silence, however, from this averted earnestness, Belgian art has derived that mystical nourishment which has lent its baffling strength to the works of Maeterlinck, the pictures of Fernand Khnopff and Georges Minne. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z Maeterlinck, at the time he wrote The Massacre of the Innocents, must have been trying his hand at various forms of literature. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Even his dramatic technique comes under the sway of Maeterlinck's altered view of the world. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Maeterlinck's fame rests on his poetry and his essays no less than on his plays. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors He also formed, about this time, a close friendship with Maeterlinck. Poems of Emile Verhaeren "Yes—sort of enchanted Maeterlinck forest with Melisande coming through the trees." Cinderella Jane In Ghent it made people look askance at Maeterlinck. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z These originally prefaced certain works of those writers translated by Maeterlinck in his earlier years. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z For Maeterlinck's The Intruder, which demanded a room in an old ch�teau, one important addition was made, a flat with a door. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors Arthur Symons brought back from Paris stories of Verhaeren and Maeterlinck, and so brought me confirmation, as I thought, and I began to announce a poetry like that of the Sufi’s. The Trembling of the Veil Compare Maeterlinck with Bernard Shaw as to difference in spirit and method. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women Characters!—Maeterlinck himself told Huret that his intention was to write "a play in Shakespeare's manner for a marionette theatre." Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z But if we take a play by Maeterlinck we shall find that unless we grasp the particular fairy thread of thought the poet rather lazily flings to us, we cannot grasp anything whatever. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Maeterlinck's chief interest in his college years seems to have been the modern movement in Belgian literature. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors A meeting on Maeterlinck should follow this, and another on Ibsen, with criticism, comparisons, and readings. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. Maeterlinck's château is especially interesting: a medieval structure with a great court. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women The Princesses have, however, found a friend in a Dutch critic, Dr Is. van Dijk, whose book on Maeterlinck is suggestive. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z This, in the case of Maeterlinck, is brought about by the combined employment of familiar and original artistic devices. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z The Intruder illustrates also Maeterlinck's use of symbols. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors But there are moments for all of us when we value silence as highly as Maeterlinck himself and this, in Burton's opinion, was one of them. Come Out of the Kitchen! A Romance Maeterlinck has never done anything so true or effective as this short prose drama of Mr. Yeats’s. The Cutting of an Agate Maeterlinck's imagination has been compared "to a lake with desolate and stagnant waters, unceasingly reflecting the same black landscapes, on whose banks the same suffering personages for ever come to sit." Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z The grave and melancholy mood that so deeply impregnates the work of Maeterlinck is tinged in the earlier stage, as has been pointed out, with the sombre coloring of fatalism. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z The Intruder, the theme of which is the mysterious coming of death, is an illustration of one of Maeterlinck's pet theories in regard to the subject matter of the drama. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors “Really, you make the conversation sound like one of Maeterlinck's plays,” she rejoined. Bye-Ways Maeterlinck, by the way, has never seen the opera. Interpreters The events in Maeterlinck's life are his books; and these are not, like Strindberg's books, for instance, so inspired by personality that they in themselves form a fascinating biography. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z As a matter of fact, Maeterlinck has profoundly studied, not Shakespeare alone, but the minor Elizabethans as well. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z One has but to consider the short-stories of Henry James or the one-act plays of Galsworthy or of Maeterlinck to be convinced that a violent struggle is not necessary to the art of either form. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors To the girl’s mind there came in almost cruel contrast that chorus of Maeterlinck’s mothers raised in rapturous expectancy to the unborn; she knew she was hearing now the agonized antithesis of it. Leerie Absolute latitude is permitted the stage director, as Maeterlinck has made no restrictions in the book. Interpreters The fact is, there is very little printed matter easily available on the biography proper of Maeterlinck. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z And this duty Maeterlinck seeks to discharge by proclaiming in jubilant accents the concrete reality of happiness. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z It is significant that the oldest play in the present collection is Maeterlinck's The Intruder, published in 1890. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors From it, too, came the superb poetic efflorescence of our times; and the two writers who most brilliantly represent French literature in the world, Maeterlinck and Verhaeren, are Belgian. Above the Battle Somehow by those means at the command of a fine artist, she subdued her very definite personality and moulded it into the vague and subtle personage created by Maurice Maeterlinck. Interpreters It was van Lerberghe, too, more than any other, who won Maeterlinck over to symbolism. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Of the gloomy fatalism of his literary beginnings hardly a trace is to be found in the Maeterlinck of to-day. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z In 1885, Maeterlinck entered the University of Ghent to study law, but his practice of this profession was confined to a scant year or two. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors I assure M. Maeterlinck that no one in Germany thinks of imitating the act of his 'civilized nation.' Above the Battle Americans who, I am told, are fond of Maeterlinck, may appreciate its very manifest beauty at first hearing, but they didn't in Paris. Interpreters But Maeterlinck met Mallarmé personally during his stay in Paris; in short, various influences worked upon him to turn him from Heredia's and Maupassant's manner to that of Mallarmé's disciples. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Maeterlinck's speculations, despite their medieval provenience, have a practical orientation. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Maeterlinck was asked to write his name on the whitewashed wall of Barrie's studio. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors In the same way, M. Maeterlinck, another idealist of the day, wrote The Blue Bird. How to See a Play Maurice Maeterlinck, the Belgian dramatist and mystic philosopher, is by no means dull in his appreciation of practical conditions. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 In this play, as also in The Sightless, and later on in The Life of the Bees, Maeterlinck shows himself a master of irony. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z But in Maeterlinck's optimistic anthropology no human being is spiritually so deadened as to be forever out of all communication with the things that are divine and infinite. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Now there are plays in which symbolism is appropriate—those of Maeterlinck, for instance. Henry VIII and His Court 6th edition From association with Howe he heard of current authors who expressed new moods, Pierre Loti, Thomas Hardy, Maeterlinck, Tolstoi. The "Genius" And those of us who are of a compound between hard and soft enjoy visiting the Maeterlinck coast as we might a resort. The Crow's Nest Some critics consider it the best thing Maeterlinck has written. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z As for any real kinship of Maeterlinck with Shakespeare, the resemblance between the two is slight. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z But if, as has been said, Maeterlinck resembles Shakespeare, Shakespeare does not resemble Maeterlinck. Henry VIII and His Court 6th edition Maeterlinck in his “Life of the Bee” has an eloquent and profound chapter on the “Spirit of the Hive.” German Problems and Personalities But it poisoned poor Maeterlinck more—I may say, most of all—for he had taken his own medicine honorably as fast as he mixed it. The Crow's Nest That would be dramatic, and therefore, in Maeterlinck's idea at the time he wrote the play, vulgar. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z As the technique in the more recent creations of Maeterlinck, so the diction, too, accommodates itself to altered tendencies. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z You mean you must let us see you reading Maeterlinck. I'll Leave It To You A Light Comedy In Three Acts Little wonder in the interim of a cold, grey, miserable existence he suffered from what he calls "mystic fear," the fear of fear, such as Maeterlinck shows us in The Intruder. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Or in those of such dreamers as Maeterlinck, Dunsany, or Poe. The Crow's Nest In the chapter on "La Morale Mystique"—one which has been sharply criticised by Christians—Maeterlinck sunders the soul from the conscious acts of the body. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z It is this inner, essential meaning that Maeterlinck's dialogue attempts to set free. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z “The best book of its kind that has appeared since Maeterlinck’s ‘Buried Temple,’ full of deep thought, of excellent criticism, and of beautiful writing.”—London letter to the Chicago Evening Post. In The Seven Woods Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age Arthur Symons has spoken of his "icy ecstasy" and Maurice Maeterlinck described his laughter as "laughter of the soul." Ivory Apes and Peacocks The Maeterlinck books constitute quite a beautiful country. The Crow's Nest This statement of Maeterlinck's is a noble defence of his friend, and, as such, not to be trusted. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Our study of Maeterlinck should help us, therefore, to discover possibly in the new romantic tendency some practical and vital bearings. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z To speak of Meredith and Tolstoi, Ibsen and Maeterlinck, is to beat the air. An Ocean Tramp He would have welcomed Maeterlinck's test question: "Are you of those who name or those who only repeat names?" Ivory Apes and Peacocks Monsieur Maeterlinck, the proprietor, although he makes his home in this region, likes sometimes to visit the real world, if but for a change. The Crow's Nest Interesting, too, is the way Maeterlinck reads his own theories into the Elizabethans. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Throughout his career Maeterlinck reveals himself in the double aspect of poet and philosopher. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Maeterlinck's play deals with legendary, mysterious, symbolic beings, and the entire subject-matter was admirably suited to Debussy's genius. Music: An Art and a Language Little has been written of him, the most complete estimate being that of Camille Mauclair, with an introduction by Maeterlinck—who calls his Hamlet more Hamlet than Shakespeare's. Ivory Apes and Peacocks On the Maeterlinck coast, in the realms of romance, he is king. The Crow's Nest This chapter is perhaps the most famous of his essays; and it must be understood if much in Maeterlinck's other work is not to remain obscure. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Maeterlinck feels too modernly to make use of that ancient sensuous imagery. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z As Maeterlinck says, "The theatre should be the reflex of life, not this external life of outward show, but the true inner life which is entirely one of contemplation." Music: An Art and a Language A border-lander, as is Maurice Maeterlinck, Munch has a more precise vision; in a word he is a mystic, and a true mystic always sees dreams as sharp realities. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Maeterlinck has for years made a business of beautiful thoughts. The Crow's Nest Be that as it may, there are many astonishing things in Maeterlinck's mysticism, as there are in all mysticism. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Thus, while Maeterlinck is a poet greatly preoccupied with spiritual matters yet nothing to him is more wonderful and worthy of attention than the bare facts and processes of living. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z She left off reading Maeterlinck, borrowed books on farming from Axel, and eagerly studied them, learning by heart before breakfast long pages concerning the peculiarities of her two chief products, potatoes and pigs. The Benefactress The fear of death, the very fear of fear, Maeterlinck has created by a species of creeping dialogue. Ivory Apes and Peacocks We want a poet to do for the cockroach what Maeterlinck has done for the Bee. The Crow's Nest "It is our death that guides our life, and our life has no other object than death," Maeterlinck had said. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Maeterlinck going, at first, to undue lengths in this endeavor, exposed the diction of his dramas to much cheap ridicule. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Her eye wandered along the shelves above the writing-table—hers was the Heine and Maeterlinck room—and she wondered what all the books were there for. The Benefactress Behold what Maeterlinck makes out of the life of the bee, simply by getting at and portraying the facts—a true wonder-book, the enchantment of poetry wedded to the authority of science. Ways of Nature To bolster up his case, Maeterlinck urges that "the capacity for folly so great in itself argues intelligence," which amounts to saying that the more fool you are, the more you know. Under the Maples For The Blue Bird Maeterlinck was in 1912 awarded, for the third time in succession, the Belgian "Triennial prize for dramatic literature." Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z But even for those many who find themselves unable to build very large hopes on the spiritual uplift of mankind through disaster, Maeterlinck's philosophy is a wholesome tonic. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Maeterlinck, if she had heard of him, would have been dismissed by her with an easy smile. The Benefactress Note Maeterlinck's treatment of the dog in a late magazine article, probably the best thing on our four-footed comrade that English literature has to show. Ways of Nature Buffon did not share Maeterlinck's high opinion of the intelligence of the bee; he thought the dog, the monkey, and the majority of other animals possess far more; an opinion which I share. Under the Maples A few words must be devoted to the present position of Maeterlinck in critical estimation. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Maeterlinck was seriously threatened by this danger during his earlier period. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Kate's predicament in the matter was, after all, very much Mrs. Stringham's own, and Susan Shepherd herself indeed, in our Maeterlinck picture, might well have hovered in the gloaming by the moat. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II But all this does not trouble one in reading of Maeterlinck's dog. Ways of Nature After we have discounted Maeterlinck so far as the facts will bear us out in doing, it remains to be said that he is the philosopher of the insect world. Under the Maples Of Maeterlinck the man nothing but good is known. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z For unfortunately it has to be confessed that this supreme gift of the gods has been very sparingly dispensed to Maeterlinck. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Maeterlinck calls Fabre the "insects' Homer," and declares that his work is as much a classic as the famous Greek epic, and deserves to be known and studied as a classic. Common Science "If Maeterlinck would feed on Henry James and write a dream fugue on your affected title, this might be the result," muttered Berkeley. Melomaniacs If Fabre is the Homer, as he himself has said, Maeterlinck is the Plato of that realm. Under the Maples There it is, too, says Maeterlinck, that we first understand each other, for subtle, tender bonds are there between all souls.... Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Before the war, Maeterlinck's writings were animated by humanitarian sympathies of the broadest catholicity. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z It requires the awakened soul that Maeterlinck talks about, that is, the soul alive to the spiritual essences of things to recognize this new realm which composers are bringing to us in music. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning To Maeterlinck's remark, "It is often of better avail from the start to seek that which is highest," he adds: "Always, not often." War Letters of a Public-School Boy IX Maeterlinck wrote wisely when he said: The insect does not belong to our world. Under the Maples The book was a great surprise for Maeterlinck's already world-wide community. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z On the other hand, too, not many have sensed as deeply as has Maeterlinck the grandeur to which humanity has risen through the immeasurable pathos of the war. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Maeterlinck speaks of “the gravest problem that can thrill mankind, the knowledge of the future.” Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war Another annotated book is Maeterlinck's "Wisdom and Destiny." War Letters of a Public-School Boy Maeterlinck tells of a little Italian bee that he once experimented upon during an afternoon, the results showing that this bee had told the news of her find to eighteen bees! Under the Maples It is the genius of the earth which is acting in them—the earth-spirit, Maeterlinck might have said with Goethe. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Such a condemnatory tirade against the despoilers of his fair homeland was normally to be expected from a man of Maeterlinck's depth of feeling. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Centuries prior to Maeterlinck, even before Pliny, Virgil, Varro and Aristotle, those warmly constructed little insects, hailed by the ancients as Winged Servants of the Muses, have been immortalized. Sunlight Patch I have read Maeterlinck's life of him, and there is nothing I would t do for a bee—a reasonable bee—one that would appreciate a little sound advice. Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm Maeterlinck's conception of the Spirit of the Hive was an inspiration, and furnishes us with the key to all that happens in the hive. Under the Maples This room was empty when I was brought into it; and I beguiled the tedium of waiting for Maeterlinck by reading some of the thoughts on the slips of white paper pinned to the wall. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Altogether, Maeterlinck's thoughts and actions throughout this yet unfinished mighty fate-drama of history challenge the highest respect for the clarity of his intellect and the profoundness of his humanity. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z They are the Cecil Rhodes, the Thomas Edisons, the Maurice Maeterlincks of their fields. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression In "The Blue Bird" Maeterlinck takes little account of external fact. The Blue Bird for Children The Wonderful Adventures of Tyltyl and Mytyl in Search of Happiness Maeterlinck and other students of the honey bee make the mistake of humanizing the bee, thus making them communicate with one another as we communicate. Under the Maples In short, Maeterlinck is a socialist much as Goethe was a patriot. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z And of the quiescent rather than the insurgent variety of the romantic temper Maurice Maeterlinck was the foremost exponent. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Maeterlinck thinks as a poet and only fails when he writes as a philosopher. The Orchard of Tears Shortly after, at the death of his father, Maeterlinck returned to Belgium where he has since resided most of the time. The Blue Bird for Children The Wonderful Adventures of Tyltyl and Mytyl in Search of Happiness There is a deal of truth, and, as befits the subject, rather implied than actually expressed, in Maeterlinck's essay on Silence. Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life But, apart from the translation itself, the preface is of value as showing how deeply read in the mystics Maeterlinck already was at this time, and the importance he attached to their teaching. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z It must be confessed, however, that even those to whom Maeterlinck's sphere of thought is not so utterly sealed, enter it with a sense of mixed perplexity and apprehension. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Maeterlinck has never done anything so true or effective as this short prose drama of Mr. Yeats's. The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays Maeterlinck has always had much in common with the young. The Blue Bird for Children The Wonderful Adventures of Tyltyl and Mytyl in Search of Happiness And M. Maeterlinck perceives, therefore, that real communion between fellow-creatures is interchange of temperament, of rhythm of life; not exchange of remarks, views, and opinions, of which ninety-nine in a hundred are merely current coin. Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life Maeterlinck has striking things to say concerning the German romanticist. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z And so the atmosphere of Maeterlinck's plays is impregnated throughout with oppressive mysteries, and until the key of these mysteries is found there is very little meaning to the plays. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Maeterlinck's great tribute to the automobile is his regard for it as the conqueror of space. The Automobilist Abroad Whether in philosophy, drama or poetry, Maeterlinck is exclusively occupied in revealing or indicating the mystery which lies only just out of sight beneath the ordinary life. The Blue Bird for Children The Wonderful Adventures of Tyltyl and Mytyl in Search of Happiness For the credit of human nature we feel compelled, in sight of such enormities, to go back to Mr. Maeterlinck's theory that invisible powers of evil are using man for the execution of devilish designs. The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War As to women, Maeterlinck sees in them what Tacitus saw in the women of the Germans, something divinely prophetic. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z The imaginative equipment of Maeterlinck's dramaturgy is rather limited and, on its face value, trite. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Take Maeterlinck's wise sayings for your guide, and be tolerant of the rights of others. The Automobilist Abroad There are the rich fancies of Barrie and Maeterlinck, at the same time delicate as the promises of spring and brilliant as the fruitions of summer. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes In Maurice Maeterlinck's new volume of essays there is one on "The Power of the Dead." Over the Fireside with Silent Friends Maeterlinck's Tower is there, hauntingly desolate, a nightmare, set against The three blind sisters. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z In his style, Maeterlinck had gradually developed an unprecedented capacity for bringing to light the secret agencies of fate. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z A good beginning for the woman who is to keep bees is to read Maeterlinck's 'Life of the Bee.' The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance "Not by the exceptional," says Maeterlinck, "shall the last word ever be spoken; and, indeed, what we call the sublime should be only a clearer, profounder insight into all that is perfectly normal." The Life Radiant Surely, in beautiful words such as these, Maeterlinck but echoes the consolation of many a very lonely heart since the tragedy of August, 1914. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends Character can be modified, urges Maeterlinck; and we must be content with that. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z At another moment in the drama, we behold the lovers in Maeterlinck's beloved half-light, softly weeping as they stare with speechless rapture into the flames. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z “It’s a book by Maeterlinck,” said Lydia, “that Godfather gave me ever so long ago, and I’ve never had time to read it.” The Squirrel-Cage This petty strife may seem absurd to us, but it is all a part of the Spirit of the Hive, as Maeterlinck would say. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators So the ages seemed united, and Virgil and Theocritus brought suddenly face to face with Maeterlinck and Henley; and an instant later we had taken a small excursion into the middle ages of superstition. The Car of Destiny To glorify this woman's debasement, as Maeterlinck's play might seem to do, would be to wallow in morbid Christianity. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z “The Death of Tintagiles” repeats in a still more harrowing form the fearful predicament of a helpless child treated with so much dramatic tension in Maeterlinck's first tragedy. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z "Maeterlinck, the great Austrian statesman, looked with suspicion on all kinds of suggestions of reform or agitation." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 26, 1916 I hope they didn't feel they had been spoofed, as Maeterlinck so basely spoofed them in The Blue Bird, by offering them a grown-ups' play "sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916 I know of nothing, except it be Maeterlinck, in the whole modern range of the literature of the inner life that can compare with them. My Reminiscences The humour that made the essay "On the Death of a Little Dog" so irresistible makes this presentation of Maeterlinck's philosophy for children a thing of pure delight. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z So the final word of Maeterlinck's philosophy, after a lifetime of ardent search, clears up none of the tantalizing secrets of our existence. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Even though life be rationalized, it will none the less call for intrepid faith; for what Maeterlinck calls "the heroic, cloud-tipped, indefatigable energy of our conscience." The Moral Economy However, since in Maeterlinck’s play Melisande was seeking the light in the depth of the water, perhaps after all the two titles had almost a similar meaning. The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army She found a number of girls sitting around on the various pieces of furniture, eating fudge and discussing the tragedies of one Maeterlinck. When Patty Went to College Maeterlinck coming into the room and finding me thus occupied, laughed heartily. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Maeterlinck's romantic antipathy towards the main drift of the age was a phenomenon which at the dawn of our century could be observed in a great number of superior intelligences. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Here, achieved in terms of naked horror, we find some of the things which Maeterlinck has aimed at and never quite rendered through an atmosphere and through forms of vague beauty. Figures of Several Centuries Properly speaking, Maupassant is no more a realist than Maeterlinck. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories Actually quoted Huber to me the other day, and Maeterlinck's 'Life of the Bee!' The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor Maeterlinck, reading with me, smiled as he saw me attack a new battalion of thoughts. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Together with Maeterlinck's optimistic strain, his individualism gains an unexpected emphasis. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z It doesn't matter to us in the least that Morgan and Richard Strauss helped fill a folio alongside of Maeterlinck and such like persons. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets “What do you think of Maeterlinck, Mr. Delcasar?” she enquired in an innocent manner that must have concealed malice. The Blood of the Conquerors Maeterlinck, too, knew this trick of our childhood. Dreams Not one critic has given us the exhaustive list of parallel passages which would be required to shake our credit in Maeterlinck's essential originality. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Maeterlinck may not be classed unreservedly as a radical individualist. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z A nifty tailored young gent with slick putty-colored hair and Maeterlinck blue eyes. Torchy As A Pa “Maeterlinck is a great Belgian writer,” he explained. The Blood of the Conquerors I was sitting quietly at home reading Maeterlinck on Auction Bridge when suddenly I143 began to sneeze like a Russian regiment answering roll call. You Should Worry Says John Henry But the sage needs no approbation save his own; and Maeterlinck's good deeds were done, not for praise, but because he was Maeterlinck. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z He was a man of the new style, but he experienced now the spiritual condition of his great-grandfather, which affected him so that, like Maeterlinck's Hjalmar, he wished to throw handfuls of earth at night-owls. The Argonauts If there be any reader who is unacquainted with M. Maeterlinck's "Life of the Bee," let him or her study that instructive book. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles In the wonderful play of Maeterlinck’s, called the “Bluebird,” we are taken to the “land before birth,” where the children are waiting to be born, having selected their parents to be. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science And then Maeterlinck's little play offered itself to his genius as a unique auxiliary. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Now in this cult of the future and of the human brain which is to make man God, Maeterlinck is not alone. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z He understood now Maeterlinck's expression, to sink to the very eyelids in sorrow. The Argonauts He may have heard that Maeterlinck is a "highbrow" and it frightens him. The Patient Observer And His Friends Consider one fact: the civilization that kissed Maeterlinck on both cheeks, and Tagore perhaps even more intimately, has yet to shake hands with Anatole France.... A Book of Prefaces "The great castle in malevolent woods" and the country about it is very like the part of fairyland that M. Maeterlinck refound by following the charts of early discoverers in Arthurian legend. Irish Plays and Playwrights It was the very situation, Maeterlinck claims, which he had himself imagined in the final trial of Joyzelle. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z That would have been like the odor of ether on a sunny day in Maeterlinck's hot-houses. The Argonauts I have just had a note from Rex, asking me, with characteristic precision, if I can produce a play in the style of Maeterlinck by 6.50 this afternoon, or words to that effect. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Every flapper now knows all that is worth knowing about Ibsen, Strindberg, Maeterlinck and Shaw, and a great deal that is not worth knowing. A Book of Prefaces Mr. Colum, a youth with an appetite for reading as insatiable as his impulse to write, read not only his Ibsen but his M. Maeterlinck. Irish Plays and Playwrights The fact of Maeterlinck's vogue with Christian readers only proves that Christianity has much in common with the religion of the future. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Then you wrote Culled Cowslips and Faded Fig-Leaves and you imitate Maeterlinck, and you—Oh, I know lots of people that you know;' she cried, with every symptom of relief; 'and you know my brother.' In Search of the Unknown It is as in the case of Maeterlinck, let the reader move his standpoint one inch nearer the popular standpoint, and there is nothing for the thing but harsh, hostile, unconquerable mirth. The Victorian Age in Literature It is with this conviction in his mind that Maeterlinck meditates on the same theme as that which arrested Anatole France. Nature Mysticism Back of "Broken Soil" is Ibsen, back of "The Miracle of the Corn" is M. Maeterlinck. Irish Plays and Playwrights If Maeterlinck had written nothing more he would have been quite forgotten, or only remembered because, for instance, Charles van Lerberghe wrote some poetry in the form of a criticism of the book. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z I seen a crazy critic a-writin' of a screed; "Tendencies" and "Unities"—Maeterlinck indeed! The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) Maeterlinck and the decadents, in short, may fairly boast of being subtle; but they must not mind if they are called narrow. The Victorian Age in Literature We can do no better than to call it the Spirit of the Hive, as Maeterlinck has done. The Breath of Life I do not wish to overemphasize the influence of Emerson on "A.E.," and indeed it is no greater than Emerson's influence over M. Maeterlinck. Irish Plays and Playwrights Maeterlinck has simply taken his requisites from Shakespeare. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z In fact, she had definitely a symptom of M. Maeterlinck's awed feeling when he found himself left alone with the talking horses: "With whom was she?" Gentle Julia He lives in glass houses; he is akin to Maeterlinck in a feeling of the nakedness of souls. The Victorian Age in Literature There is an unwritten constitution, a spirit that governs, like Maeterlinck's "spirit of the hive." The Breath of Life A red-headed girl from Brooklyn, who confessed that she thought Maeterlinck the name of some new Parisian wickedness, further bothered him with questions about piano teachers. Visionaries It is not astonishing, then, that Maeterlinck should have felt drawn to the most famous of Flemish mystics. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z I don't know but we are just as far from Ibsen and Maeterlinck as they are from us.” The Jamesons Maeterlinck in his poetical drama, "The Bluebird," appropriately has made Light the faithful companion of mankind. Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization Though English critics have consigned to me The plays of Ibsen, Maeterlinck, and Shaw, And Wilde’s Salomé, none has ever reached me. Masques & Phases They will want to know more about Maeterlinck and they will joyously imagine what they would say to him and how he would answer, what he would eat and how he would behave. Religious Education in the Family Astolaine discovers the truth; but she, the first of Maeterlinck's strong, emancipated women, feels no jealousy. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z But read over again the great peaceful words of Maeterlinck in his book on death, words ringing with compassion for our fears in the tremendous passage of mortality. Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915 But Maeterlinck is the best example, because his genius is less. Ancient Art and Ritual In another book from this pen it has been declared that the words of Maeterlinck—"the spirit of the hive"—are an inspired phrase. Sally Bishop A Romance Lady Kingsmead bowed graciously, but when the door closed, frowned with disgust, and putting Maeterlinck on the table, drew Claudine from under an embroidered pillow and began to read. The Halo One of the things that Maeterlinck had treated in Wisdom and Destiny was the principal of justice. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z When and where did M. Maeterlinck encounter an obsequious cat? Americans and Others Maeterlinck sets us figures in the foreground only to launch us into that limbus. Ancient Art and Ritual "Take care," warns The Old Man in that most simply touching of Maeterlinck's plays, Intérieur; "we do not know how far the soul extends about men." Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score Gabriel d'Annunzio threw into his melting-pot the Renaissance, the Italian painters, music, the writers of the North, Tolstoy, Dostoïevsky, Maeterlinck, and our French writers, and out of it he drew his wonderful poems. Musicians of To-Day Joyzelle, another dramatised essay, is again written in the irritating blank verse which Maeterlinck at this stage of his career seems to have grown perversely fond of. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Therefore has her latest and greatest defamer, Maeterlinck, branded her as ungrateful and perfidious. Americans and Others "The Knave of Hearts" is intended as a marionette play, and other dramas—Maeterlinck's and even Shakespeare's—have been given in this way with very interesting effects. The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays The result would have been as inconceivable before Maeterlinck undertook the writing of drama as, to-day, it is inimitable and untouched. Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score The atmosphere in which Maeterlinck's drama moves makes one feel the melancholy resignation of the will to Fate. Musicians of To-Day The book shocked many of its critics, who found one of Maeterlinck's ideas repugnant—his plea that it is to no purpose to prolong the agonies of the sick-bed. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z The other is an emotional naturalism, of which Maeterlinck is at the moment a brilliant and lamentable example. Preaching and Paganism As yet the only woman winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the prize awarded to Kipling, Maeterlinck, and Hauptmann, is the Swedish author of this book, "Jerusalem." Jerusalem This is immediately followed by one of the most important themes in the opera, that which seems to typify the veiled and overshadowing destiny which is very close to the central thought of Maeterlinck's play. Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score Maeterlinck, Ibsen, Shaw, merely use the stage as a kind of magic-lantern or suggestion-centre for the real things that, out behind us in the dark, are happening in the audience. Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy Now this is a matter which, as we shall see, directly concerns Maeterlinck; so it will not be extraneous to our subject to discuss here the question of the origin of vers libres. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Maeterlinck, who attributes emotions to plants and souls to bees, might wrap a drama of destiny about this insect. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers This about the man of whom Maeterlinck has written that he has "the most complete and the most logical imagination of the age." Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 One would have said, in advance of the event, that Debussy, of all composers, living or dead, was best fitted to write music for Maeterlinck's beautiful and perturbing play. Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score You may remember a sentence of Maeterlinck——' We have to grope timidly and make sure of every footstep, as we cross the threshold. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India The mysterious coming of death is the theme of The Intruder, a play by Maeterlinck which was published in 1890. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z He can stage Tiffany's jewels but not Maeterlinck's bees. The Broadway Anthology And we know how Maeterlinck has emerged from the mystic dreams and silences of his recluse chamber to unfold the dramatic pugnacities of Birds and Bees. Recent Developments in European Thought Maeterlinck's play, as adapted by Debussy for musical setting, becomes a "lyric drama in five acts and twelve tableaux." Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score "This man Maeterlinck must have escaped from an asylum," Father Rowley went on. The Altar Steps Certainly, the new frisson is there; but was it Maeterlinck who created it? Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z In what respects may it be said, do you think, as Maeterlinck himself has informed us, that 'Joyzelle' grew from 'The Tempest?' Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies In the earlier poetry of Maurice Maeterlinck, the inner life imposes a more jealous sway. Recent Developments in European Thought There was much correspondence between composer and dramatist before Maeterlinck finally heard the music of Debussy at a rehearsal at the Opéra-Comique: so, at least, runs the legend. Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score In its social presuppositions this community belongs to a world as visionary as the mystic dream-politics of M. Maeterlinck. Robert Browning It will be well to go into this question; for Maeterlinck, in connection with The Intruder, has been charged with plagiarism. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Recent writers, of whom Maeterlinck and Eucken are striking instances, have endeavoured to show how the past can be remoulded and changed. Rudolph Eucken : a philosophy of life At any rate, silence, in spite of Maeterlinck, does not express it. The Poetry Of Robert Browning In Maeterlinck's dramas the whole of nature vibrates with man, either warning him of coming catastrophes or taking on a mournful attitude after they have happened. Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score The position of Maeterlinck in modern life is a thing too obvious to be easily determined in words. Varied Types In van Lerberghe's play resistance is offered to visible personifications of death; in Maeterlinck's play resistance is impossible, because death is invisible. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z "To every man," wrote Maeterlinck, "there come noble thoughts, thoughts that pass across his heart like great white birds." Edward MacDowell In his earlier plays Maeterlinck invented a world of his own, which was a sort of projection into space of the world of nursery legends and of childish romances. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Maeterlinck's aim is to show that contrary to the usual idea, what we call Fate, Destiny, is not something apart from ourselves, which exercises power over us, but is the product of our own souls. Cobwebs of Thought The selection of "Thoughts from Maeterlinck" is a very creditable and also a very useful compilation. Varied Types It is "the angel" among Maeterlinck's productions, a weakling which no fostering can save. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z She were better in exile, on Ibsen's sand dunes or Maeterlinck's bee farm. Shandygaff "Pelléas and Mélisande" is the most beautiful of Maeterlinck's plays, and to say this is to say that it is the most beautiful contemporary play. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Maeterlinck asks: Where do we find the fatality in Hamlet? Cobwebs of Thought They have come in our time: they have been broken by Maeterlinck. Varied Types This is in the nature of an accident; and by the canons of dramaturgy accidents must not precipitate tragedy, but Maeterlinck's plays proudly ignore the canons of dramaturgy. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z "In all arts," Maeterlinck remarks, "civilized peoples have approached or departed from pure beauty according as they approached or departed from the habit of nakedness." Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Maeterlinck began by a marvellous instinct, with plays "for marionettes," and, having discovered a forgotten secret, grew tired of limiting himself within its narrow circle, and came outside his magic. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Hamlet thinks much, continues Maeterlinck, but is by no means wise. Cobwebs of Thought Maeterlinck is a very great man; and in the long run this process of mutilation has happened to all great men. Varied Types What Maeterlinck has contributed to the problem is that he makes the two women love each other as well as the man they sandwich.... Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z The same kind of thing happened in the case of Maeterlinck. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" In d'Annunzio we have an art partly shaped by Maeterlinck, in which all is atmosphere, and a home for sensations which never become vital passions. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory We might, perhaps, sum up Hamlet's right course, from the hints Maeterlinck has given us, in a sentence. Cobwebs of Thought The one real struggle in modern life is the struggle between the man like Maeterlinck, who sees the inside as the truth, and the man like Zola, who sees the outside as the truth. Varied Types They are joined by Ardiane, the strong, wise woman of Maeterlinck's second period; and she delivers the poor little limp creatures. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z The playwright did not attempt to create supernatural mood; he did not resort to natural tricks such as Maeterlinck used in "L'Intruse," or as Mansfield employed in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." The Return of Peter Grimm By his decision in regard to this play of Maeterlinck, Mr. Redford has of course conclusively proved his unfitness for his post. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory This explanation sounds rather conventional and tract-like put into ordinary language, but, indeed, Maeterlinck's doctrine might be compressed into a syllogism:— All the wise are serene, Hamlet was not serene, Hamlet was not wise. Cobwebs of Thought Maeterlinck's appearance in Europe means primarily this subjective intensity; by this the materialism is not overthrown: materialism is undermined. Varied Types Maeterlinck has some hard things to say about historical dramas, "those necessarily artificial poems which are born of an impossible marriage between the past and the present." Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z He breathed the breath of life into these vague, shadowy poems, just as he made Maeterlinck's "Pélleas" live again. The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians And out of this tragic tangle Maeterlinck has made a play which is too full of beauty to be painful. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory But Maeterlinck never refers to anything of this sort. Cobwebs of Thought For history, after all, is valuable only in so far as it lives, and Maeterlinck's cry, 'There are no dead', should always be the historian's motto. Medieval People Maeterlinck describes the vehement, obstinate revolt of flowers against their destiny. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z It would take Maeterlinck or Swedenborg to find the mystic meaning of a duck. The Art of the Moving Picture The dramatist of the future will have more to learn from Maeterlinck than from any other playwright of our time. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory "If OEdipus had had the inner refuge of a Marcus Aurelius, what could Destiny have done to him?" asks Maeterlinck. Cobwebs of Thought It has become the inspiration for Maeterlinck in "Pelléas and Mélisande," who has viewed the Italian passion through a mirage of mysticism. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini Maeterlinck is a boxer who needs some beating. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z I will leave the spiritual interpretation of the angle to Emerson, Swedenborg, or Maeterlinck. The Art of the Moving Picture We must still, though we have seen "Monna Vanna," wait, feeling that Maeterlinck has not given us all that he is capable of giving us. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory And because he was not inwardly serene, Maeterlinck considers him blind and ignorant. Cobwebs of Thought Certain of his experiments have been admirably reported by Maurice Maeterlinck in the eighth chapter of Our Eternity. Four-Dimensional Vistas Maeterlinck's play is on a level with those of Hall Caine; his Roman villain especially might have been conceived by Hall Caine. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z And to illustrate further, there is but one scarlet letter in Hawthorne's story of that name, but one wine-cup in all of Omar, one Bluebird in Maeterlinck's play. The Art of the Moving Picture Maeterlinck should be acted in this solemn way, in a kind of convention; but I admit that you cannot act Ibsen in quite the same way. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Maeterlinck says: "Hamlet thinks much but is by no means wise." Cobwebs of Thought Maeterlinck's account, somewhat condensed, is given here, because it so well illustrates the liberation of consciousness from the tyranny of time as we conceive it. Four-Dimensional Vistas Maeterlinck's sentences are short, often unfinished, leaving much to be guessed at; and they are the common speech of everyday life, containing no archaic or poetic diction. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z From Maeterlinck we have The Bluebird and many another dream. The Art of the Moving Picture No one else, except Mr. Arliss as the old servant, was good; the acting was not sufficiently monotonous, with that fine monotony which is part of the secret of Maeterlinck. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Therefore, according to Maeterlinck, he was not wise, for he could not conquer his inner fatality—destiny in himself. Cobwebs of Thought Maeterlinck's comments upon all this are of negligible value. Four-Dimensional Vistas A biographical study, with two essays by M. Maeterlinck. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z And on Emily Brontë, M. Maeterlinck has spoken the one essential, the one perfect and final and sufficient word. The Three Brontës Now the question is: which is really made ridiculous by this ridiculous episode of the prohibition of Maeterlinck's "Monna Vanna," England or Mr. Redford? Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Maeterlinck, in his first essay, "The Treasure of the Humble," is, undoubtedly, mystical. Cobwebs of Thought The popularity of such writers as Meredith and Hardy, Ibsen and Nietzsche, Maeterlinck and Walt Whitman, constitutes a writing on the wall the significance of which cannot be gainsaid. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays But Maeterlinck's brain was always as healthy as his body. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z And he will have ignored the one perfect, the one essentially true picture of Emily Brontë, which is to be found in Maurice Maeterlinck's Wisdom and Destiny. The Three Brontës Maeterlinck has invented plays which are pictures, in which the crudity of action is subdued into misty outlines. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Man, said Maeterlinck, is his own Fate in an inner sense; he is superior to all circumstances, when he refuses to be conquered by them. Cobwebs of Thought They also are condemned to be always trying to write like George R. Sims, and succeeding, in spite of themselves, in writing like Maeterlinck. All Things Considered There are two things in which Maeterlinck is quite original: the dialogue, and the æsthetic intention. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z To M. Maeterlinck she is the supreme instance of the self-sufficing soul, independent and regardless of the material event. The Three Brontës They talk with that straightforward and simple kind of innocency which makes strange and impressive the dialogue of Maeterlinck's earlier plays. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge That is the simple syllogism by which Maeterlinck tests human nature. Cobwebs of Thought High above even Maeterlinck or Meredith stand those, like Homer and Milton, whom no one can misunderstand. All Things Considered That Maeterlinck was meditating the famous chapter on "Silence" in The Treasure of the Humble when he wrote Princess Maleine may be inferred from Act ii. sc. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z But in treating the first two terrors to which he applies his comfortable arguments, Maeterlinck's reasoning appears to me almost irrelevant, almost obsolete. Essays in Rebellion Huber, Lubbock, Maeterlinck—in fact, all the great authorities—are agreed in denying that the bee is a member of the human family. What Is Man? and Other Essays When Maeterlinck says, "Hamlet's ignorance puts the seal on his unhappiness," we may well ask ignorance of what? Cobwebs of Thought We let Maeterlinck celebrate those moments of spiritual panic which he knows to be cowardly; we let Mr. Rudyard Kipling celebrate those moments of brutality which he knows to be far more cowardly. All Things Considered The fragmentary style of Novalis, though it provided Maeterlinck with ideas, did not influence his prose as much as that of Emerson did. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z From the outset, Maeterlinck has been an amateur of death. Essays in Rebellion It was Maeterlinck who introduced me to the bee. What Is Man? and Other Essays Maeterlinck, no doubt, would dwell on his varying moods, his subtle melancholy, his nature baffled by a supernatural command. Cobwebs of Thought If you are agreed, say, in admiring Meredith, Hardy, Omar Khayyam, and Maeterlinck,—to take four particularly test-authors,—there is nothing to prevent your marrying at once. Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance He came for many of us, Maeterlinck thinks, just at the right time. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z In combating the dread of future torment, Maeterlinck may have better cause for giving comfort. Essays in Rebellion I positively don't dare look Emerson or Maeterlinck in the face. The Harvester Would there be any sense in his loading up his shelves with Maeterlinck and Shaw when the department-store trade wants Eleanor Porter and the Tarzan stuff? The Haunted Bookshop Somebody mentioned Maurice Maeterlinck, and I asked if she was a Freshman. Daddy-Long-Legs It is in Emerson's "spiritual brother," Carlyle, that Maeterlinck finds his mainstay in the opening essay of the book, that on "Silence." Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z In effect this doctrine comes very near Maeterlinck's plea of comfort. Essays in Rebellion Satisfaction, like the praise of dolts, is the compensation of the aesthetic cheese-monger—the popular novelist, the Broadway dramatist, the Massenet and Kipling, the Maeterlinck and Augustus Thomas. The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages This projection of the inward upon the outward world, in such a degree that the dividing line between the two is lost, is strikingly illustrated in Maeterlinck's plays. The Book of Old English Ballads And yet all the talk had been mere confessions of faith—in Ibsen, in Browning, in Maeterlinck, in English gardens, in Art for Art's sake, and in Whistler and Beethoven. The Incomplete Amorist Maeterlinck has indeed used silence to make the soul speak. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z It may be that my affection for the "narrow ego" is too violent, but, for myself, I do not find M. Maeterlinck's consolations more genuinely consoling than other philosophy. Essays in Rebellion He does not care to know if the author keep a motor-car, like Maeterlinck; or prefer to walk on Putney Heath, like Swinburne. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Nothing could be in sharper contrast, for instance, than the famous ballad of "The Hunting of the Cheviot" and Maeterlinck's "Princess Maleine." The Book of Old English Ballads His poetry usually is of the noonday and the market-place; but this might have been written by Coleridge, or Maeterlinck, or Edgar Allan Poe. Robert Browning: How to Know Him If we cultivated silence more, we should perhaps discover, with Maeterlinck, that the period we live in is one of the soul's awakening. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z He stayed for a moment or two before the genius, part sublime, part silly, of Maeterlinck: from that there issued a polite mysticism, monotonous, numbing like some vague sorrow. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House The deeply marked passages had been in Maeterlinck that day. A Fountain Sealed The first piece in Stonefolds represents the tragic helplessness of those newly born and those very old, a favourite theme with Maeterlinck. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century All her gowns were lovely loose or draped or girdled things: you could have costumed the whole cast of two Maeterlinck plays from just those hangers. The Wishing-Ring Man It is especially the "interior beauty," of which Maeterlinck treats in the last essay in the collection, which fills the play Aglavaine and Selysette, published in the same year. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Out of the ruins of some massive old building they have constructed, on the summit, a lonely weather-beaten fabric that would touch the heart of Maeterlinck. Old Calabria Her lightest reading was Sartor Resartus, and occasionally she would drop into Ibsen and Maeterlinck, the asparagus of her philosophic banquet. Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel In mysticism, in symbolism, and in the quality of his imagination, Mr. Yeats of course reminds us of Maeterlinck. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century They do not observe that Maeterlinck, in his own practice, constantly deals with crises, and often with violent and startling ones. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship Happiness is what humanity was made for, Maeterlinck teaches in Wisdom and Destiny. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z The vistas through the trees seen enchanted rather than real--unbelievable green and of form and depth that remind one of painted settings for a Maeterlinck fable rather than matter-of-fact timber land. The Centralia Conspiracy A Luther and Goethe may be the puppets pitted in a contest of culture against Maeterlinck and Victor Hugo. The War and Democracy Rhythmical prose is as old as the Old Testament; the best modern rhythmical prose that I have seen is found in the earlier plays of Maurice Maeterlinck, written a quarter of a century ago. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century One of his interludes for children has allegorical characters that remotely suggest some that appear in the modern Bluebird, by Maeterlinck. Halleck's New English Literature With this naïve and sincere letter Maeterlinck clears himself of any charge of plagiarism. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Seeds of the silver flower of Emerson: One, on the winds to Scotland brought, did sink In Carlyle's heart; and one was lately blown To Belgium, and flowered in—Maeterlinck. The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems Then the boy who had introduced it said to me: "I wonder, when you see it, whether you'll think Mr. Maeterlinck wrote 'The Land of Happiness' act, or not." The American Child He avowed that he was envious of Maeterlinck on account of his poetic "Life of the Bee." Our Friend John Burroughs He, too, has obviously fallen a victim to its charms, and duly comments on the blue birds, which Maeterlinck could find here in any number without a lengthy and painstaking quest. Here, There and Everywhere Maeterlinck has been singularly unsuccessful in this drama. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Maeterlinck says he learnt all he knows from a man he met in a brasserie. Without Prejudice "Pelléas et Mélisande" as it came from the hands of M. Maeterlinck, and in the only form which the author recognizes, had been presented in New York in an English version. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Parts of Maeterlinck's "Treasures of the Humble," and "Wisdom and Destiny," he "couldn't stand." Our Friend John Burroughs But then, the laughter died; for he thought of Maeterlinck's "Life of the Bee", and shuddered at the fate of the male-creature. Love's Pilgrimage Twenty-five copies on vellum and five on Holland, printed on a hand-press by Maeterlinck for private circulation. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z With Maeterlinck it is the mystery, with Stevenson the colour, with Wordsworth the divinity. Without Prejudice The strict subordination of ants and bees to the common welfare is a well-known marvel, the latter enthusiastically and poetically described by Maeterlinck in his delightful Life of the Bees. Problems of Conduct A poet of this kind in the realm of literature is Maeterlinck. Concerning the Spiritual in Art I told the story of the poppy as Maeterlinck has told the life of the bee. Revolution, and Other Essays Selections from Maeterlinck's works have appeared in the following anthologies, etc.: Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z One recalls Maurice Maeterlinck: "Whereas most of our life is passed far from blood, cries and swords, and the tears of men have become silent, invisible and almost spiritual." Chopin : the Man and His Music Material success in life, fame, wealth—these things M. Maeterlinck passes indifferently by. Wisdom and Destiny Maeterlinck is perhaps one of the first prophets, one of the first artistic reformers and seers to herald the end of the decadence just described. Concerning the Spiritual in Art Maeterlinck says: If Socrates leave his house today he will find the sage seated on his doorstep. Ulysses In this reaction against naturalism in Belgium, Maeterlinck's work was hardly more effective than the dreamy poetry of Georges Rodenbach. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z "The scheme to which I allude is what Maeterlinck would call a lallapaloosa!" Indiscretions of Archie To those who regard literary men merely as purveyors of amusement for people who have not wit enough to entertain themselves, Ibsen and Shaw, Maeterlinck and Gorky must remain enigmas. Arms and the Man This atmosphere Maeterlinck creates principally by purely artistic means. Concerning the Spiritual in Art Our players are creating a new art for Europe like the Greeks or M. Maeterlinck. Ulysses Maeterlinck came to hate the Jesuits; but his monastic training lingered in his love of the mystics. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Something certainly of that mysterious law which Maeterlinck has called the spirit of the Hive—and something infinitely greater, like that which governs the swarming sun bees of Hercules' clustered orbs. The Metal Monster Have you read Maeterlinck's book about the bee? Man and Superman Maeterlinck's principal technical weapon is his use of words. Concerning the Spiritual in Art If you abstain from tennis and read Maeterlinck in a small country village, you are of necessity intellectual. Reginald According to the creed abandoned by Maeterlinck, it was his fate to be weak, blind, and vain. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Heyse protested; but Maeterlinck laughed at him and just had the play published under his name. My Life and My Efforts Then he brought forth a tome called "The Double Garden," written by someone who was evidently an Eyetalian or Polack or other foreigner, because he bore the grievously un-American name of "Maeterlinck". His Dog As Maeterlinck uses them, words which seem at first to create only a neutral impression have really a more subtle value. Concerning the Spiritual in Art He probably heard me call you Herr Maeterlinck and wanted to get it perfectly. The Unknown Guest Those who fight shy of Maeterlinck because they credit the report, sufficiently widespread, that he is a platitudinarian, might be advised to sample him in this essay. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Maeterlinck nevertheless used Heyse's ideas, but in a manner which did not constitute plagiarism and openly pointed this out in an appendix to the German edition of his play. My Life and My Efforts Then, on second reading, bits of Maeterlinck's meaning, here and there, seeped into Ferris's bewilderedly groping intellect. His Dog I am not sure, but I think it was in connection with a discussion on Maeterlinck. The Fawn Gloves And yet, hadn't he just read that Maeterlinck, fifty-six, had married Mademoiselle Dahon, many years younger? The Drums of Jeopardy To be quite short, Maeterlinck's man of the future is essentially the superman. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z But it is not merely by such strange aesthetic suggestions that writers like Maeterlinck have influenced us in the matter; there is also an ethical side to the business. What's Wrong with the World Again we catch a very faint northerly breeze from Ibsen, or a southeaster from Maeterlinck and Hauptmann. Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors They seemed like three black-clad ladies in some strange play of Maeterlinck, veiling the catastrophe from the audience in the manner of the Greek chorus. The Club of Queer Trades The antique prophets prophesied successfully; they practised with some ease that art since lost but partly rediscovered by M. Maeterlinck, who proves to us that the future already exists, simultaneously with the present. Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William On Maeterlinck: or Notes on the Study of Symbols, with special reference to "The Blue Bird." Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z |
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