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Elskamp, Max (1862-1931)

A Belgian French speaking poet, who was born and who died in Antwerp. All of his work, nourished with piety and written in a Symbolist tone, is constructed as the echo of ‘the traditional soul of the people,’ the people with little exposed to the bad weather of the Northern climate and who are soothed by the gentle warmth of the Flemish hinterlands. It is the simplicity of song which prevails here, notably when it metamorphoses into lament, as well as the delicacy of prosody: his Enluminures (1898) are significant in this respect. Inspiration became more bitter, however, from August 1914 onwards, the beginning of the Great War, which led him to seek refuge in nearby Holland. This poet, finally, is also an image producer because he from time to time himself illustrated with wood engravings certain of his poetry collections.

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