Mon Coeur Pleure D’Autrefois

avec La Chanson d'un jour et L'Annonciatrice

By (author) Grégoire Le Roy Edited by Richard Bales

Book cover: Mon Coeur Pleure D’Autrefois

Extent: 160 pages

Publisher: University of Exeter Press

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Exeter Textes Litteraires

Language: French

(Paperback) (Published)

(September 2005)

ISBN: 9780859897297

5.98 x 9.02 inches

Price: $30.00

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GrEgoire Le Roy was at school with Maeterlinck and Van Leberghe, and grew up in the same atmosphere of intellectual ferment. His first published collection pre-dates Maeterlinck’s Serres chaudes. This is the first edition since their original publication of the three collections of poems by a significant member of the Belgian Symbolist school.


Gregoire Le Roy was at school in Ghent with Maeterlinck and Van Leberghe, and grew up in the same atmosphere of intellectual ferment. His first collection of published verse just pre-dates Maeterlinck’s Serres chaudes. His fin-de-siecle poetry was highly considered at the time of its first appearance, and was widely published in reviews. He treats all the major themes of the period, with special emphasis on a melancholy tone, half-tint landscapes, overt musicality, and (almost obsessively) the destructive nature of time. This is the first edition since their original publication in 1889 and 1907 of the three collections of poems by a significant member of the Belgian Symbolist school. Republishing Le Roy’s early work is an important step in recreating an accurate intellectual portrait of an important and influential movement.

Frontispice: Gregoire Le Roy (1908), ii
Remerciements, v
Introduction, ix
Bibliographie, xxix
LA CHANSON D'UN SOIR, 1
MON COEUR PLEURE D'AUTREFOIS (1889), 25
L'ANNONCIATRICE, 49
MON COEUR PLEURE D'AUTREFOIS (1907), 73
Appendice: Lettre inedite de Maurice Maeterlinck a Gregoire Le Roy, 119,


Frontispice: Gregoire Le Roy (1908), ii; Remerciements, v; Introduction, ix; Bibliographie, xxix; LA CHANSON D'UN SOIR, 1; MON COEUR PLEURE D'AUTREFOIS (1889), 25; L'ANNONCIATRICE, 49; MON COEUR PLEURE D'AUTREFOIS (1907), 73; Appendice: Lettre inedite de Maurice Maeterlinck a Gregoire Le Roy, 119.


  • By (author) Grégoire Le Roy
  • Edited by Richard Bales

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