Gaston Burssens

Gaston Burssens
Born	Gaston Karel Mathilde Burssens 18 February 1896 Dendermonde, Belgium
Died	29 January 1965 (aged 68) Antwerp, Belgium
Nationality	Belgian
Occupation	poet

Gaston Karel Mathilde Burssens (18 February 1896 – 29 January 1965) was a Belgian Expressionist poet. He studied in Flanders at the University of Ghent, at which, during World War I, the Germans introduced classes given in Dutch language.

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.

Poetry

• 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
• 1958 Adieu
• 1961 Posthume verzen
• 1981 Verzameld proza
• 2005 Alles is mogelijk in een gedicht. Verzamelde verzen 1914-1965

External links

• "Gaston Burssens" (in Dutch). dbnl. Retrieved 21 February 2011.