I started to translate Mallarm 's poems because I wasn't content with the English versions I could find. In translation, poets who preceded and followed Mallarm are accessible to us. Baudelaire is accessible to us, Apollinaire is accessible to us. I couldn't find a way into Mallarm in the English versions I found, and I suspected it wasn't his fault. Mallarm was an English teacher, and he did translations of the poems of his beloved Edgar Allan...
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