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Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949), the Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist, was a seminal figure in the Symbolist movement, which sought to express the more mystical and less tangible aspects of the human experience. Born in Ghent to a French-speaking family, Maeterlinck initially studied law but soon abandoned it for the more alluring world of literature. His writing is characterized by a mystic...