Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781904614647)

Rodenbach is known first and foremost for his famous novel Bruges la Morte. Bruges was his muse and poetic source, the landscape in which he attempted to reveal the significance of what appeared lifeless or unconnected to art. Using the symbolist devices of suggestion and mood, Rodenbach sifts the elements that make up the decaying Bruges which he sees as a medieval corpse laid out for him to 'rescue' through his interpretation of its atmosphere of melancholy, its seductive romantic decline and its lonely atmosphere. With rare beauty and delicacy, Rodenbach's poetry spins its web of tonal impressionism and seems always to exist on the border of silence.

Author: Georges Rodenbach
ISBN-10: 1904614647
ISBN-13: 9781904614647
Publisher: ARC Publications
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2017
Pages: 114
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.27d