by Stéphane Mallarmé
translated by Rosemary Lloyd
University of Chicago Press, 1988
Cloth: 978-0-226-48841-7
Library of Congress Classification PQ2344.Z5A4 1988
Dewey Decimal Classification 841.8

ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
It is the reading world's good fortune that Stéphane Mallarmé's letters survived, allowing later generations an intimate look at the inner life of one of Europe's most important poets. Mallarmé (1842-98), often called the father of the Symbolists, has had an immense influence on the development of modern European poetry. It was his ambition to create a poetry pure of quotidian reality—autonomous, concentrated, linguistically inventive. His correspondence documents the evolution of this aim, the crafting of a poetics out of a life inescapably "real" in its pains and charms.