Les Villes tentaculaires

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| author = Émile Verhaeren

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| country = Belgium

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| genre = Symbolist poetry

| published = 1895

| publisher = Edmond Deman

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| native_wikisource = Les Villes tentaculaires, précédées des Campagnes hallucinées (Verhaeren)

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Les Villes tentaculaires ({{Translation|The Tentacular Towns}}, sometimes rendered The Great Cities or The Many-Tentacled Town) is a volume of Symbolist poetry in French by the Belgian Émile Verhaeren, first published in 1895 by Edmond Deman, with a frontispiece by Théo van Rysselberghe. It established the poet's European reputation,David Gullentops, "La réception de Verhaeren aux Pays-Bas", Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire, 77:3 (1999), pp. 739-750.Jan Robaey, "Verhaeren en Italie: Ambiguïtés d'une fortune littéraire", Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire, 77:3 (1999), pp. 765-786. and his stature as "a true pioneer of Modernism".Émile Verhaeren, Poems, translated by Will Stone (Todmorden, Arc Publications, 2014), p. 26. The loose theme of the collection is modern urban life and the transformation of the countryside by urban sprawl.Patrick Abercrombie, "The Many-Tentacled Town: The Vision of Emile Verhaeren", The Town Planning Review, 3:2 (1912), pp. 133-149.

The theme of urban sprawl had already been broached in Verhaeren's 1893 collection Les Campagnes hallucinées (The Hallucinated Fields).Stefan Zweig, Émile Verhaeren, translated by J. Bithell (London, Constable and co., 1914), pp. 100-106. [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35387/35387-h/35387-h.htm Available through Project Gutenberg]. The two collections were generally printed together in one volume from 1904 onwards.