Education
He was educated at the University of Brussels and in 1908 moved to England, although he retained his Belgian citizenship.
He was educated at the University of Brussels and in 1908 moved to England, although he retained his Belgian citizenship.
In 1914 Cammaerts became professor of Belgian studies at the University of London. He achieved popularity with his poems of World War I, in English translation entitled Belgian Poems (1915), New Belgian Poems (1916), Through Iron Bars (1917), and Messines (1918). A collection of his verse, Poemes Intimes, appeared in 1922. Other works, mostly historical and political, are History of Belgium (1921), Treasure House of Belgium (1924), Discoveries in England (1932), Rubens (1932), Albert of Belgium, Defender of Right (1935), The Laughing Prophet; the Seven Virtues and G. K. Chesterton (1937), The Keystone of Europe: a History of the Belgian Dynasty (1939), The Flower of Grass (1944), The Peace That Was Left (1945), Principalities and Powers (1947), and The Devil Takes the Chair (1949), an allegory. Cammaerts also translated Ruskin and Chesterton into French, and in 1917 wrote two plays, Les deux bossus and La Veillee de Noel.