Émile Cammaerts

Émile Cammaerts

Émile Leon Cammaerts (March 16, 1878 in Brussels, BelgiumNovember 2, 1953 in Radlett, Hertfordshire, England) was a Belgian poet.

Cammaerts moved to England in 1908. Aside from his own writings, he engaged in translations of John Ruskin and G. K. Chesterton. His most important work was his 1935 biography of King Albert. He became Professor of Belgian Studies at the University of London in 1933, and his papers are held there in Senate House Library.

He married the theatrical actress Tita Brand (daughter of the singer Marie Brema), with whom he had six children, one of them Francis Cammaerts.

Works

* "Belgian Poems : Chants patriotique, et autres poems" (translated into English by his wife in 1916)
* "Carillon", recitation, with music by Elgar: at the first performance the poem was read by Tita Brand, Cammaerts' wife (1914)
* "Une voix dans le désert", recitation, with music by Elgar (1915)
* "Le drapeau belge", recitation, with music by Elgar (1917)
* "Through the iron bars, two years of German occupation in Belgium" (1917)
* "A history of Belgium from the Roman invasion to the present day" (1921)
* "Discoveries in England" (1930)
* "Albert of Belgium, defender of right", a biography of King Albert I of Belgium (1935)
* "The laughing prophet" (Study of G. K. Chesterton - 1937)
* "Upon this rock" (1943)
* "The flower of grass" (1945)
* "The peace that is left" (1945)
* "The Cloud and the Silver Lining (Christian contributions to the BBC Silver Lining Radio programme -1952)

External links

* [http://archives.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/dispatcher.aspx?action=search&database=ChoiceArchive&search=IN=MS800 Catalogue of Émile Cammaerts' papers]
*gutenberg author|id=Cammaerts+Emile|name=Émile Cammaerts
* [http://www.famousbelgians.net/cammaerts.htm Émile Leon Cammaerts]
* [http://hdl.handle.net/1802/1098 "Carillon": monologue with music, poem by Émile Cammaerts and music by Elgar] Score from Sibley Music Library Digital Scores Collection
* [http://hdl.handle.net/1802/1099 "Une voix dans le désert": monologue with music, poem by Émile Cammaerts and music by Elgar] Score from Sibley Music Library Digital Scores Collection


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