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...