Collected Poems And Other Verse

by Mallarmé, Stéphane; Blackmore, E.H.; Blackmore, A. M.; McCombie, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780192803627
• ISBN10: 019280362X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Stephane Mallarme was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets, and a key figure in Modernism. His writings, with their richly sensuous texture and air of slyly intangible mystery, perplexed or outraged many early readers; yet no writer has more profoundly influenced the course of modern poetry - in English as well as in French. This is the fullest collection of Mallarme's poetry ever published in English, and the only edition in any language that presents his Poesies in the last arrangement known to have been approved by the author. Prose poems, uncollected verse, and the unique, unclassifiable Un Coup de des... (A Dice Throw...) are also present, including over 20 items that have never previously been translated. Original spelling, punctuation, and lineation have been preserved throughout. The lucid, wide-ranging introduction provides a clear survey of Mallarme's work and deals fully with the difficulties that may face readers approaching it for the first time. Collected Poems offers both Mallarmelovers and first-time readers a full understanding of this astonishing poet's work.

Author Biography

The Blackmores have translated Musset, Sand, and Hugo, and for Oxford World's Classics they have published Six French Poets of the Nineteenth Century and The Essential Victor Hugo.

Table of Contents

Toast	p. 3
Ill fortune	p. 3
Apparition	p. 7
Futile petition	p. 9
A punishment for the clown	p. 11
The windows	p. 11
The flowers	p. 15
Renewal	p. 15
Anguish	p. 17
['Weary of bitter rest ...']	p. 17
The bell-ringer	p. 19
Summer sadness	p. 21
The blue	p. 21
Sea breeze	p. 25
Sigh	p. 25
Alms	p. 25
Gift of the poem	p. 27
Herodias : scene	p. 29
A faun in the afternoon	p. 39
['The hair flight of a flame ...']	p. 47
Saint	p. 47
Funerary toast	p. 49
Prose (for Des Esseintes)	p. 53
Fan (belonging to Mme Mallarme)	p. 57
Another fan (belonging to Mlle Mallarme)	p. 57
Album leaf	p. 59
Remembering Belgian friends	p. 59
Cheap songs	p. 61
I (the cobbler)	p. 61
II (the seller of scented herbs)	p. 63
Note	p. 63
Little ditty I	p. 65
Little ditty II	p. 65
A few sonnets
['When the shade threatened ...']	p. 67
['This virginal long-living ...']	p. 67
['The fine suicide fled ...']	p. 69
['With her pure nails ...']	p. 69
The tomb of Edgar Allan Poe	p. 71
The tomb of Charles Baudelaire	p. 71
Homage ['already mourning ...']	p. 73
I ('does every pride ...')	p. 73
II ('arisen from the rump ...')	p. 75
III ('a lace vanishes ...')	p. 77
['What silk with balm from advancing days ...']	p. 77
['To introduce myself into your tale ...']	p. 79
['Stilled beneath the oppressive cloud ...']	p. 79
['My old tomes closed upon the name paphos ...']	p. 81
The future phenomenon	p. 83
Autumn lament	p. 85
Winter shivers	p. 87
The demon of analogy	p. 89
Poor pale child	p. 91
The pipe	p. 95
An international performance	p. 95
Reminiscence	p. 101
The announcement at the fair	p. 103
The white water lily	p. 113
The ecclesiastic	p. 119
Glory	p. 121
Conflict	p. 125
Poem : a dice throw at any time never will abolish chance	p. 161
Poems uncollected by Mallarme
Winter sun	p. 183
The prodigal son	p. 183
... In the mystical shadows	p. 185
Sonnet ['often the poet ...']	p. 187
Hatred of the poor	p. 187
['Because a bit of roast ...']	p. 189
The castle of hope	p. 189
['A negress aroused by the devil ...']	p. 191
Herodias : overture	p. 193
In the garden	p. 199
Sonnet ['when sombre winter ...']	p. 199
['Nothing on waking ...']	p. 201
Sonnet ['o so dear from afar ...']	p. 201
['Lady without too much passion ...']	p. 203
['If you wish we shall make love ...']	p. 203
Street folk	p. 205
The seller of garlic and onions	p. 205
The roadmender	p. 205
The newsboy	p. 205
The quarryman's wife	p. 205
The old clothes woman	p. 207
The glazier	p. 207
Fan (belonging to Mery Laurent)	p. 207
Homage ['every dawn however numb ...']	p. 209
['All the soul that we evoke ...']	p. 211
Tomb ['the black rock, cross ...']	p. 211
['For the sole task of travelling ...']	p. 213
Herodias : canticle of John the Baptist	p. 213
Occasional verses
Postal recreations	p. 217
Fans	p. 225
Presenting the faun to various people	p. 227
Invitation to the inaugural soiree of the revue independante	p. 229
Toast ['as a man sought from his own province ...']	p. 231
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