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Excerpt from The Development of Maurice Maeterlinck and Other Sketches of Foreign Writers
It was not till he wrote the series of essays called Le Tr�sor des Humbles that we could any of us understand M. Maeterlinck. In his earlier moods he seemed to be trying to copy the Elizabethan drama, especially in its sugges tions of vague horror and crude, soul-subduing crime. As a matter of fact, the Belgian writer translated into French one of the most charac teristic of John Ford's plays; another of the Belgian school reproduced Webster's Duchess of Malfi and the whole of Princess Maleine is a pale and ineffective version of what Shake speare achieved so triumphantly in Hamlet and Macbeth. But though the attractiveness of the supernatural always remained as an over powering interest for our author, he ceased to care for the crude and the morbid forms of tragedy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
