Hothouses: Poems, 1889

by Maurice Maeterlinck

On May 31, 1889, a young Belgian lawyer from a wealthy bourgeois family in Ghent published a book of 33 poems in 155 copies. Maurice Maeterlinck's legal career was floundering but his road to literary greatness had begun. Long overshadowed by the plays that later won him the Nobel Prize, Serres chaudes (Hothouses) nonetheless came to be widely regarded as one of the cornerstones of literary Modernism after Baudelaire. While Max Nordau...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691088381
• ISBN13: 9780691088389
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.6"