The leading poet of French symbolism, Stephane Mallarme has exercised an enormous influence both on French and on English and American avant-garde writers. In this volume C. F. MacIntyre has translated forty-three of his poems, including the "Ouverture" and "Scene" from Herodiade, which was to have been a drama in verse, and the well-known L'Apres-midi d'un faune, for which Debussy composed his orchestral prelude. The French text faces the English translations, which are both true to the original and poetic. Indeed, as MacIntyre suggests, Debussy is probably "one of the best...
The leading poet of French symbolism, Stephane Mallarme has exercised an enormous influence both on French and on English and American avant-garde wri...
Selected Poetry and Proseof Stephane Mallarme presents what can be considered the essential work of the renowned father of the Symbolists. Mallarme s major elegies, sonnets, and other verse, including excerpts from the dialogue Heriodiade, are all assembled here with the French and English texts en face. Also included (not bilingually) are the visual poem Dice Thrown Never Will Annul Chance and the drama Igitur, as well as letters, essays, and reviews. Although his primary concern was with poetry, the aesthetics of Stephane Mallarme (1842-98) has touched all the arts. During the last twenty...
Selected Poetry and Proseof Stephane Mallarme presents what can be considered the essential work of the renowned father of the Symbolists. Mallarme s ...
During his lifetime, Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) was recognized as one of the greatest living French poets. He wrote extensively on themes of reality and his desire to turn away from it, marrying form and content in revolutionary ways that departed drastically from the more tightly controlled French tradition. Despite his status as one of the first modernists, much of Mallarme's radicalism has been lost in translation. Finally, in this new collection by Blake Bronson-Bartlett and Robert Fernandez, the magic and mastery of form and diction, so striking in Mallarme's French verse, comes to...
During his lifetime, Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) was recognized as one of the greatest living French poets. He wrote extensively on themes of realit...
