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Poetry and Common Sense
July 13, 1911 issue

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This article focuses on French poetry. A recent volume of translations from French verse written by Belgians is of more than ordinary interest. Like the people among whom it came into being, this poetry has a composite look, reflecting literary tendencies and methods of several countries and presenting little that can be called exclusively its own. It does in any case fix the attention upon a certain few traits which one is likely to find in the poetry of almost any Continental country and which have never taken root in the poetry of England and America. Emile Verhaeren, one of the contributors to the collection, has been presumptuously called the greatest of French poets.

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FRENCH poetry; TRANSLATIONS; FRENCH literature; VERHAEREN, Emile; POETS; POETRY
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