Definition of Maeterlinck

1. Noun. Belgian playwright (1862-1949).

Exact synonyms: Count Maurice Maeterlinck
Generic synonyms: Dramatist, Playwright

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maeterlinck

Madura
Madura boil
Madura foot
Madurai
Maduran
Madurans
Madurella
Madurese
Mae
Mae West
Mae Wests
Maeandra
Maebashi
Maecenas
Maecenases
Maeterlinck (current term)
Maeve
Mafa
Maffia
Maffucci
Maffucci's syndrome
Mafia
Mafiosi
Mafioso
Mafiosos
Mafucci syndrome
Magadan
Magadhan
Magadhi
Magaluf

Literary usage of Maeterlinck

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and by Barrett Harper Clark (1918)
"It was Adam who, according to Maeterlinck, directed him toward " the spiritual, poetic, and mysterious side of things." In 1889. after his return home on ..."

2. The Contemporary Drama of France by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1920)
"CHAPTER X MAJOR POETS AND ROMANCERS Maeterlinck FROM the plays of Maurice ... Maeterlinck is of imagination all compact, less passionate than fanciful, ..."

3. Authors and I by Charles Lewis Hind (1921)
"MAURICE Maeterlinck HAD Maeterlinck not come to America it would have been ... Maurice Maeterlinck has been in the Vortex. The Apostle of Silence came to ..."

4. Modern Drama and Opera: Reading Lists on the Works of Various Authors by Clara A. Mulliken Norton, Frank Keller Walter, Fanny Elsie Marquand, Archibald Henderson (1915)
"Maurice Maeterlinck was born in Ghent in 1862, educated at the College St. Barbe, ... Maeterlinck is a consistent mystic and his plays are so full of ..."

5. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"Maeterlinck: an impressionistic photograph. EO Hoppe. por. Bookm. 3:>: 511-4. ... Maeterlinck on our eternity. AH Gleason. Trip to Magdalena bay. AV. AV. ..."

6. The Anglo-Saxon Review by Randolph Spencer Churchill (1900)
"BY MAURICE Maeterlinck DONE INTO ENGLISH BY A. BERNARD MIALL This ... Of the inner meaning which M. Maeterlinck has read into the legend it is not here my ..."

7. Problems of the Playwright by Clayton Meeker Hamilton (1917)
"XXI THE MOOD OF Maeterlinck IN the Blue Bird of Maurice Maeterlinck, the little boy ... This is the secret of M. Maeterlinck as a poet: he too, like Tyltyl, ..."

8. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1911)
"Maeterlinck, Maurice. Leaf of olive. Holiday ed. 16°. 25 cn Dodd. ... Maeterlinck, Maurice. Thoughts from Maeterlinck; сотр. by ESS Holiday ed. 16". ..."

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