"Poems" by Maurice Maeterlinck is a poetry collection that forms part of a movement long-defunct—the Belgian Symbolist movement, an offshoot of that Belgian renascence that produced so remarkable a body of great and noble poetry. Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (1862 – 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. He was a leading member of La Jeune Belgique group and his plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement.