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Gaston Karel Mathilde Burssens (18 February 1896 – 29 January 1965) was a Belgian
* 1918 ''Verzen''
* 1919 ''De Yadefluit''
* 1920 ''Liederen uit de stad en uit de sel''
* 1924 ''Piano''
* 1926 ''Enzovoort''
* 1930 ''Klemmen voor zangvogels''
* 1933 ''Paul van Ostaijen zoals hij was en is ''
* 1935 ''French en andere cancan''
* 1941 ''De eeuw van Pericles''
* 1943 ''Elegie''
* -- ''Floris Jespers''
* 1945 ''Fabula rasa''
* 1946 ''12 niggersongs''
* 1952 ''Pegasos van Troja''
* -- ''Boy''
* 1954 ''Ode''
* 1956 ''Floris Jespers''
* -- ''Paul van Ostaijen''
* -- ''Het neusje van de inktvis''
* 1956 ''Debuut met Plagiaat''
* 1958 ''Adieu''
* 1961 ''Posthume verzen''
* 1981 ''Verzameld proza''
* 2005 ''Alles is mogelijk in een gedicht. Verzamelde verzen 1914-1965''
Expressionist
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...
poet. He studied at the Dutch-language Von Bissing University in Ghent during the German occupation of Belgium during World War I
The German occupation of Belgium (, ) of World War I was a military occupation of Belgium by the forces of the German Empire between 1914 and 1918. Beginning in August 1914 with the invasion of neutral Belgium, the country was almost complet ...
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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.Works
* 1918 ''Verzen''
* 1919 ''De Yadefluit''
* 1920 ''Liederen uit de stad en uit de sel''
* 1924 ''Piano''
* 1926 ''Enzovoort''
* 1930 ''Klemmen voor zangvogels''
* 1933 ''Paul van Ostaijen zoals hij was en is ''
* 1935 ''French en andere cancan''
* 1941 ''De eeuw van Pericles''
* 1943 ''Elegie''
* -- ''Floris Jespers''
* 1945 ''Fabula rasa''
* 1946 ''12 niggersongs''
* 1952 ''Pegasos van Troja''
* -- ''Boy''
* 1954 ''Ode''
* 1956 ''Floris Jespers''
* -- ''Paul van Ostaijen''
* -- ''Het neusje van de inktvis''
* 1956 ''Debuut met Plagiaat''
* 1958 ''Adieu''
* 1961 ''Posthume verzen''
* 1981 ''Verzameld proza''
* 2005 ''Alles is mogelijk in een gedicht. Verzamelde verzen 1914-1965''
References
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Burssens, Gaston 1896 births 1965 deaths Expressionist poets Flemish poets Flemish activists 20th-century Belgian poets Belgian male poets 20th-century Belgian male writers