''Hothouses'' (or ''Hot House Blooms'', french: Serres chaudes) (1889) is a book of
symbolist poetry by the
Belgian
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Nobel laureate Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...
. Most of the poems in this collection are written in
octosyllabic verse, but some are in
free verse
Free verse is an open form of poetry, which in its modern form arose through the French '' vers libre'' form. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech.
Defi ...
.
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
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by
Richard Howard
Richard Joseph Howard (October 13, 1929 – March 31, 2022; adopted as Richard Joseph Orwitz) was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and was a graduate of Columbia University, w ...
. This edition, published by
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large.
The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financia ...
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
George (Georges) Minne (born ''Georgius Joannes Leonardus Minne''; 30 August 1866 – 18 February 1941) was a Belgian artist and sculptor famous for his idealized depictions of man's inner spiritual conflicts, including the "Kneeling Youth" scu ...
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 ...
. "Feuillage du cœur" was set to music by
Arnold Schoenberg under the name ''Herzgewächse'' and by the Belgian composer
Serge Verstockt (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''"
{{Maurice Maeterlinck
Poetry by Maurice Maeterlinck
Poetry collections
1889 poems
