Gaston Burssens

Gaston Burssens
Born Gaston Karel Mathilde Burssens
18 February 1896(1896-02-18)
Dendermonde, Belgium
Died 29 January 1965(1965-01-29) (aged 68)
Antwerp, Belgium
Nationality  Belgium
Occupation poet

Gaston Karel Mathilde Burssens (born 18 February 1896, Dendermonde – deceased 29 January 1965, Antwerp) was a Belgian Expressionist poet. He studied in Flanders at the University of Ghent, at which during World War I the Germans introduced classes given in Dutch language, and was a Flemish Activist.[1]

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Biography

Like that of Paul van Ostaijen, during the 1920s his work evolved from humanitarian expressionism towards a more organic expressionism — upon which his poetry stayed focused on musicality. Van Ostaijen's not earlier published poems were published posthumously by Burssens.

Burssens received the 'Driejaarlijkse Prijs voor Poëzie', a reward for poetry granted every third year, for 1950-52, and once again for 1956-58.

Poetry

References

  1. ^ de Ridder, Matthijs (doctoral candidate University of Antwerp) (22 May 2009). "Inleiding tot een proefschrift over de activistische tegentraditie in de Vlaamse letteren ('Introduction to a dissertation on the activist tradition in Flemish literature') (descriptive title)" (in Dutch). Mededelingen van het Centrum voor Documentatie & Reëvaluatie (a republishing Blog about French and Dutch Literature). http://mededelingen.over-blog.com/article-31749051.html. Retrieved 21 February 2011. 

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