"in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations"
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Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck |
Belgium |
b. 1862
d. 1949 |
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