Charles van Lerberghe


Charles van Lerberghe was a Flemish symbolist poet writing in French. He was a member of La Jeune Belgique movement.
His poetry was set by Gabriel Fauré in the song cycles La chanson d'Ève and Le jardin clos. His macabre drama Les Flaireurs was translated into English by the Scottish writer and critic William Sharp and published as The Night-Comers in The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal: Book of Autumn in 1895.