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Maeterlinck

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Maeterlinck
Comte Maurice . 1862--1949, Belgian poet and dramatist, noted particularly for his symbolist plays, such as Pell?as et M?lisande (1892), which served as the basis for an opera by Debussy, and L'Oiseau bleu (1909). Nobel prize for literature 1911


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It was a deliberate attack on the mysticism of the Maeterlinck school - an attack from the citadel of positive science upon the wonder-dreamers, but an attack nevertheless that retained much of beauty and wonder of the sort compatible with ascertained fact.
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