Les Verhaeren, Emile 1855-1916 creator text utu 2014 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Les Villes tentaculaires, précédées des Campagnes hallucinées" by Émile Verhaeren is a collection of poems published between 1893-1895. This diptych explores the violent transformation of the world during the Industrial Revolution, capturing the clash between city and countryside. The tentacular cities devour the hallucinated countryside, draining villages of their populations. Through stark, intense verse, Verhaeren transforms the pain of modern urbanization into a panoramic vision of humanity caught between tradition and industrial progress. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Villes_tentaculaires Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Villes_tentaculaires Release date is 2014-05-05 E-text prepared by Marc D'Hooghe (http://www.freeliterature.org) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries (https://archive.org/details/toronto) Original publication data not identified Belgian poetry (French) PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45590 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45590 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134039.0 45590