André Fontainas (1865–1948) was a Belgian

Symbolist Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and real ...

poet and critic. He was born in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

. He spent much of his life in France. He taught at Lycee Fontaines. He was a member of the

Académie Mallarmé The Académie Mallarmé is a French literary academy of writers and poets, founded in 1937. Since 1976, the Académie has awarded the Prix Mallarmé literary prize at the Brive book fair. Founding members include Paul Valéry, Édouard Dujardin, ...

Works

Poetry

* ''Le sang des fleurs'', Imprimerie Veuve Monnom, 1889 * * ''Nuits d'Epiphanie'' 1894 * ''Les Estuaires d'ombre'', 1896 * ''Crépuscules'', 1897 * ''L'Eau du Fleuve'', 1897 * * * *''L'oeuvre d'André Fontainas'', Marguerite Bervoets (ed), Palais des Académies, 1949 *''Choix de poèmes'', Mercure de France, 1950

Novel

Memoirs

* ''Mes souvenirs du symbolisme'', La Nouvelle revue critique, 1928 * ''Confession d'un poète'', Mercure de France, 1936

Non-fiction

* *''Frans Hals'', H. Laurens 1908 * *''Courbet'', F. Alcan, 1921 *''La peinture de Daumier'', G. Crès et cie, 1923 *''Constantin Meunier'', Alcan, 1923 *''Rops'', F. Alcan, 1925 *''Constable'', Translator Wilfrid Scarborough Jackson, John Lane, 1927 *''Bonnard'', Librairie de France, 1928 *''Dans la lignée de Baudelaire'', La Nouvelle revue critique, 1930 *''Tableau de la poésie française d'aujourd'hui'', La Nouvelle revue critique, 1931 *''L'Antisémitisme: son histoire et ses causes'', J. Crès, 1934

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fontainas, Andre 1865 births 1948 deaths Writers from Brussels Belgian poets in French