Collected Poems and Other Verse

by St?phane Mallarm?

• ISBN13: 9780191516740
• ISBN10: 0191516740
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-11-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Academic UK

Summary

St--eacute--;phane Mallarm--eacute--; was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets. This is the fullest collection of Mallarm--eacute--;'s poetry ever published in English, and the only edition in any language that presents his Po--eacute--;sies in the last arrangement known to have been approved by the author. It includes all the prose poems and the unique, unclassifiable Un Coup de d--eacute--;s... (A Dice Throw...) -;'sense too definite cancels yourindistinct literature'St--eacute--;phane Mallarm--eacute--; was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets. 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. In both form and content, his poems created new ways of conveying existential doubt, fragmentation, and discontinuity. This is the fullest collection ofMallarm--eacute--;'s poetry ever published in English, and the only edition in any language that presents his Po--eacute--;sies in the last arrangement known to have been approved by the author. Apart from verse, it includes all the prose poems and the unique, unclassifiable Un Coup de d--eacute--;s... (A Dice Throw...). The lucid, wide-rangingintroduction and invaluable notes help an understanding of this astonishing poet's work.