''Hothouses'' (or ''Hot House Blooms'', french: Serres chaudes) (1889) is a book of
symbolist
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poetry by the
Belgian Nobel laureate
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Maurice Maeterlinck. Most of the poems in this collection are written in
octosyllabic The octosyllable or octosyllabic verse is a line of verse with eight syllables. It is equivalent to tetrameter verse in trochees in languages with a stress accent. Its first occurrence is in a 10th-century Old French saint's legend, the '' Vie de ...
verse, but some are in
free verse.
Poems
#"Serre chaude"
#"Oraison (I)"
#"Serre d'ennui"
#"Tentations"
#"Cloches de verre"
#"Offrande obscure"
#"Feuillage du cœur"
#"Âme chaude"
#"Âme"
#"Lassitude"
#"Chasses lasses"
#"Fauves las"
#"Oraison (II)"
#"Heures ternes"
#"Ennui"
#"Hôpital"
#"Oraison nocturne"
#"Désirs d'hiver"
#"Ronde d'ennui"
#"Amen"
#"Cloche à plongeur"
#"Aquarium"
#"Verre ardent"
#"Reflets"
#"Visions"
#"Oraison (III)"
#"Regards"
#"Attente"
#"Après-midi"
#"Âme de serre"
#"Intentions"
#"Attouchements"
#"Âme de nuit"
English translations
''Serres chaudes'' has been translated into
English by
Richard Howard. This edition, published by
Princeton University Press also contains a short prose work,
''The Massacre of the Innocents'', inspired by a
Brueghel painting of the same name, as well as illustrations by
George Minne that appeared in the original volume.
Musical Adaptations
"Serre chaude," "Serre d'ennui," "Lassitude," "Fauves las," and "Oraison" were all set to music by French composer
Ernest Chausson
Amédée-Ernest Chausson (; 20 January 1855 – 10 June 1899) was a French Romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish.
Life
Born in Paris into an affluent bourgeois family, Chausson was the sole surviving child of a ...
. "Feuillage du cœur" was set to music by
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (, ; ; 13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was as ...
under the name ''Herzgewächse'' and by the Belgian composer
Serge Verstockt Serge may refer to:
*Serge (fabric), a type of twill fabric
* Serge (llama) (born 2005), a llama in the Cirque Franco-Italien and internet meme
* Serge (name), a masculine given name (includes a list of people with this name)
* Serge (post), a hit ...
(original title).
References
*Maeterlinck, Maurice (2003). ''Hothouses: Poems 1889.'' Trans. Richard Howard. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. , .
External links
Chapter II of Edward Thomas' ''Maurice Materlinck'', entitled "First Poems:''Serres Chaudes''"
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Poetry by Maurice Maeterlinck
Poetry collections
1889 poems
