Hothouses

This article is about the book. For other uses, see Hothouse (disambiguation).

Hothouses

The cover of the English-language version of Maurice Maeterlinck's Serres chaudes, translated as Hothouses.
Author	Maurice Maeterlinck
Original title	Serres chaudes
Translator	Richard Howard
Illustrator	Georges Minne
Cover artist	Lisa Clark
Language	French
Genre	Poetry
Publisher	Vanier
Publication date	1889
Publication place	Belgium
Published in English	2003
Pages	Approx. 108
ISBN	0-691-08837-3 (Hardcover) ISBN 0-691-08838-1 (Paperback)
OCLC	50684474
Dewey Decimal	841/.8 21
LC Class	PQ2625.A45 S513 2003

Hothouses (or Hot House Blooms, French: Serres chaudes) (1889) is a book of symbolist poetry by the Belgian Nobel laureate Maurice Maeterlinck. Most of the poems in this collection are written in octosyllabic verse, but some are in free verse.

"Serres Chaudes" (1917), illustration by the Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert

Poems

1. "Serre chaude"
2. "Oraison (I)"
3. "Serre d'ennui"
4. "Tentations"
5. "Cloches de verre"
6. "Offrande obscure"
7. "Feuillage du cœur"
8. "Âme chaude"
9. "Âme"
10. "Lassitude"
11. "Chasses lasses"
12. "Fauves las"
13. "Oraison (II)"
14. "Heures ternes"
15. "Ennui"
16. "Hôpital"
17. "Oraison nocturne"
18. "Désirs d'hiver"
19. "Ronde d'ennui"
20. "Amen"
21. "Cloche à plongeur"
22. "Aquarium"
23. "Verre ardent"
24. "Reflets"
25. "Visions"
26. "Oraison (III)"
27. "Regards"
28. "Attente"
29. "Après-midi"
30. "Âme de serre"
31. "Intentions"
32. "Attouchements"
33. "Âme de nuit"

English translations

Serres chaudes has been translated into English by Richard Howard. This edition, published by Princeton University Press also contains a short prose work, The Massacre of the Innocents, inspired by a Brueghel painting of the same name, as well as illustrations by George Minne that appeared in the original volume.

Musical adaptations

"Serre chaude," "Serre d'ennui," "Lassitude," "Fauves las," and "Oraison" were all set to music by French composer Ernest Chausson. "Feuillage du cœur" was set to music by Arnold Schoenberg under the name Herzgewächse and by the Belgian composer Serge Verstockt (original title).

References

• Maeterlinck, Maurice (2003). Hothouses: Poems 1889. Trans. Richard Howard. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-08837-3, ISBN 0-691-08838-1.

External links

• Chapter II of Edward Thomas' Maurice Materlinck, entitled "First Poems:Serres Chaudes"