* 1862 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1949 )

* May 6 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1862 )

* Literature – Count Maurice ( Mooris ) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck

** Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1949 )

World class writers in French include the great romantic and symbolist poet Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949, Nobel Prize 1911 ), dramatists Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ) and Henri Michaux ( 1899 – 1984 ), and the poet and playwright Émile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), one of the founders of symbolism.

In some cases, the operatic adaptation has become more famous than the literary text on which it was based, as with Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande after a play by Maurice Maeterlinck.

* The Blind ( Les Aveugles ), a play written in 1890 by the Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck

The work is a setting of a libretto by Maurice Maeterlinck.

Compositions such as his settings of Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire, various art songs on poems by Verlaine, the opera Pelléas et Mélisande with a libretto by Maurice Maeterlinck, and his unfinished sketches that illustrate two Poe stories, The Devil in the Belfry and The Fall of the House of Usher, all indicate that Debussy was profoundly influenced by symbolist themes and tastes.

Maurice Maeterlinck, also a symbolist playwright, wrote The Blind ( 1890 ), The Intruder ( 1890 ), Interior ( 1891 ), Pelléas and Mélisande ( 1892 ), and The Blue Bird ( 1908 ).

* Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949 )

Until the mid-20th century, Belgian writers more often wrote in French even if they were Flemish, due both to the then-dominant position of that language in worldwide culture and its dominant position within Belgium itself ( e. g. Suzanne Lilar, Emile Verhaeren or Maurice Maeterlinck ), and many French-speaking individuals come from originally Dutch-speaking families ( particularly in Brussels, e. g. Jacques Brel ).

Most famous Belgian authors are: Guido Gezelle ( 1830 – 1899 ), Emile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), Max Elskamp ( 1862 – 1931 ), Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949 ), Paul van Ostaijen ( 1896 – 1926 ), Henri Michaux ( French born and educated in Belgium, 1899 – 1984 ) and Jacques Brel ( 1929 – 1978 ) and prose writers: Hendrik Conscience ( 1812 – 1883 ), Charles de Coster ( 1827 – 1879 ), Willem Elsschot ( 1882 – 1960 ), Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ), Georges Simenon 1903-1989, Louis Paul Boon ( 1912 – 1979 ), Hugo Claus ( 1929 – 2008 ), Pierre Mertens ( born in 1939 ) Ernest Claes ( 1885 – 1968 ), and, Amélie Nothomb ( born in 1967 ).

As a literary critic and early member of Académie Goncourt, he ' discovered ' Maurice Maeterlinck and Marguerite Audoux and admired Remy de Gourmont, Marcel Schwob, Léon Bloy, Georges Rodenbach, Alfred Jarry, Charles-Louis Philippe, Émile Guillaumin, Valery Larbaud and Léon Werth ( cf.

* The Blue Bird ( play ), by Maurice Maeterlinck

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The historical novelist and poet Maurice Hewlett published a series of articles in the literary journal John O ' London's Weekly, in which he concluded: " And knowing children, and knowing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has legs, I decide that the Miss Carpenters have pulled one of them.

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963 ) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

* probable – Maurice Scève, French poet ( b. 1500 )

* April 4 – Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter and poet ( d. 1958 )

* Maurice Carême, poet ( 1899 – 1978 )

* Maurice Manning ( born 1966 ), American poet

Commenting on the poem, Maurice Bowra observed that "... after the challenging, flaunting opening we are led through a swift account of youth, and then as we approach the horrors of old age, the verse becomes slower, the sentences shorter, the stops more emphatic, until the poet closes with a short, damning line of summary.

Important early literature on the poet includes Édouard Bourciez, La Littérature polie et les mœurs de cour sous Henri II ( Paris, 1886 ); Jacques Pernetti, Recherches pour servir de l ' histoire de Lyon ( 2 vols., Lyon, 1757 ), and especially F. Brunetière, " Un Précurseur de la Pléiade, Maurice Scève ," in his Etudes critiques, vol.

In addition to Derrida and Joyce, she has written monographs on the work of the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, on Maurice Blanchot, Franz Kafka, Heinrich von Kleist, Michel de Montaigne, Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, and the Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva.

* Maurice Carême, poet ( 1899 – 1978 )

* Nobel Prize for Literature: Count Maurice ( Mooris ) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist

Georges Maurice de Guérin du Cayla ( August 4, 1810 – July 19, 1839 ) was a French poet.

Eugénie de Guérin ( January 29, 1805 – May 31, 1848 ), French writer, was the sister of the poet Maurice de Guérin.

Forster was close friends with the poet Edward Carpenter, and upon visiting his Derbyshire home in 1912, was motivated to write Maurice.

Its members included: Lady Diana Manners, the most famous beauty in England ; Duff Cooper who became a Conservative politician and a diplomat ; Raymond Asquith, son of the Prime Minister and a famed barrister ; Maurice Baring ; Patrick Shaw-Stewart, a managing director of Barings Bank and war poet ; Nancy Cunard and her friend Iris Tree ; Edward Horner and Sir Denis Anson.

Maurice Scully ( born 1952 ) is an Irish poet who works in the modernist tradition.

* Maurice Kenny, Mohawk poet.

* Belgian poet Maurice Maeterlinck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911.

Maurice Lindsay CBE ( 21 July 1918 – 30 April 2009 ) was a Scottish broadcaster, writer and poet.

Maurice du Martheray ( 1892 – April 12, 1955 ) was a Swiss astronomer and poet.

Late in his life, he reserved explicit criticism for the new generation of Symbolists, whose work, he argued, belonged to " the church " of Belgian poet Maurice Maeterlinck.