Selected Letters of Stéphane Mallarmé

by Stéphane Mallarmé and Rosemary Lloyd

It is the reading world's good fortune that St phane Mallarm 's letters survived, allowing later generations an intimate look at the inner life of one of Europe's most important poets. Mallarm (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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226488411
• ISBN13: 9780226488417
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"