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Print Price: $18.95

Format:
Paperback
320 pp.
129 mm x 196 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199537921

Publication date:
December 2008

Imprint: OUP UK

Collected Poems and Other Verse

Stéphane Mallarmé
E.H. Blackmore, A. M. Blackmore and Elizabeth McCombie

Series : Oxford World's Classics

'sense too definite cancels your
indistinct literature'

Stéphane Mallarmé 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 of Mallarmé's poetry ever published in English, and the only edition in any language that presents his Poésies 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 dés... (A Dice Throw...). The lucid, wide-ranging introduction and invaluable notes help an understanding of this astonishing poet's work.

Readership : Students and readers of French Literature, nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry, modernism, structuralism

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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.

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Special Features

This volume includes parallel French text and English translations and is the most comprehensive collection of Mallarmé's poetry ever published in English.
Mallarmé is one of the founders of modern European poetry and a key figure in modernism.
For the first time in any language, Mallarmé's Poésies (his major collection of verse) is printed in the last arrangement known to have been approved by the author. Prose poems, uncollected verse, and the unclassifiable Un coup de dés are also included. Original spelling, punctuation, and lineation have been preserved throughout.
The translations are the first to be based on an up-to-date French text and contain over 20 items that have never previously been translated.
The Introduction provides a clear, wide-ranging survey of Mallarmé's work and deals fully with the difficulties that may face readers approaching it for the first time. The notes incorporate recent research and supply French texts and English translations of major variant drafts.