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Bruges

Symons, Arthur | December 28, 1918 issue

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This article focuses on the Belgian literature by considering works of various noted authors, specially Camille Lemonnier, Georges Eckhoud, and Georges Rodenbach. Belgian literature, as distinguished from French, has come about through a fusion of two elements, the "Flemish" and the "Walloon," which make up the so-called Belgian race, and it is only somewhat recently that any attempt has been made in literature to fuse these two elements. The Walloon, which is related to the French, brings a nervous sensibility and a delicate mental energy, while the Flemish, which is related to the Dutch, brings a slow, profound faculty of meditation and an almost primitive simplicity, together with a gross animal fervor, deeply rooted in the earth.

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WALLOON literature; FLEMISH literature; BELGIAN literature; ECKHOUD, Georges; RODENBACH, Georges; LEMONNIER, Camille; LITTERATEURS

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H.L. Mencken, "An Eminent American," July 11, 1923.

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