Serres chaudes

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The cover of the English language version of Maurice Maeterlinck's Serres chaudes, translated as Hothouses.

Serres chaudes (Hothouses or Hot House Blooms) (1889) is a book of symbolist poetry by Belgian Nobel Laureate Maurice Maeterlinck. Most of the poems in this collection are written in octosyllabic verse, but some are in free verse.

[edit] Poems

1. "Serre chaude"
2. "Oraison (I)"
3. "Serre d'ennui"
4. "Tentations"
5. "Cloches de verre"
6. "Offrande obscure"
7. "Feuillage du cœur"
8. "Âme chaude"
9. "Âme"
10. "Lassitude"
11. "Chasses lasses"
12. "Fauves las"
13. "Oraison (II)"
14. "Heures ternes"
15. "Ennui"
16. "Hôpital"
17. "Oraison nocturne"
18. "Désirs d'hiver"
19. "Ronde d'ennui"
20. "Amen"
21. "Cloche à plongeur"
22. "Aquarium"
23. "Verre ardent"
24. "Reflets"
25. "Visions"
26. "Oraison (III)"
27. "Regards"
28. "Attente"
29. "Après-midi"
30. "Âme de serre"
31. "Intentions"
32. "Attouchements"
33. "Âme de nuit"

[edit] 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 Georges Minne that appeared in the original volume.

[edit] Trivia

"Serre chaude," "Serre d'ennui," "Lassitude," "Fauves las," and "Oraison" were all set to music by French composer Ernest Chausson. "Feuillage du cœur" was set to music by Arnold Schoenberg under the name Herzgewächse.

[edit] References

• Maeterlinck, Maurice (2003). Hothouses: Poems 1889. Trans. Richard Howard. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691088372, ISBN 0691088381.

[edit] External links

• Chapter II of Edward Thomas' Maurice Materlinck, entitled "First Poems:Serres Chaudes"