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Studies in Canadian Literature

Duncan Campbell Scott and Maurice MaeterlinckD.M.R Bentley

Volume 21, Number 2, Summer 1996

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Cite this articleBentley, D. (1996). Duncan Campbell Scott and Maurice Maeterlinck. Studies inCanadian Literature, 21(2), 104–119.

Article abstractMaurice Maeterlinck, hailed in 1892 as "the Belgian Shakespeare," influencedCanadian artistic circles around the turn of the century. A Canadian writerwho appears to have been particularly receptive to the influence ofMaeterlinck is Duncan Campbell Scott. Evidence suggests Scott drew upon themystical positivism of Maeterlinck's The Treasure of the Humble in writing"the Forsaken," "On the Way to the Mission" and "Labor and the Angel".