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Lädt ... Collected Poems and Other Verse (Oxford World's Classics) (2006. Auflage)von Stephane Mallarme (Autor)
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Sense too definite cancels your indistinct literature.' Stephane Mallarme 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 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. Apart from verse, it includes all the prose poems and the unique, unclassifiable Un Coup de des...(A Dice Throw...). The lucid, wide-ranging introduction and invaluable notes help an understanding of this astonishing poet's work. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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On the other hand, this excellent little volume gives you the French, with not entirely awful English translations, at a reasonable price, and the French gives even poor French readers like myself the means to find the gold in Mallarme. Being able to see the full range of his poetry, in French, meant that I could finally place him where he deserves to be, among the great nineteenth century poets in English, to wit, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and G. M. Hopkins. And maybe Browning.
The problem with 19th century poetry, for me, is its extraordinary inability to take seriously either humor, or other people (excluding those people you were or would like to be schtupping), and the dreariness of its forms, all harnessed towards some very boring end. Enough with the elegies, people. I'd thought Mallarme was one of them, albeit a very talented one. Instead, it turns out, Mallarme is a nonsense poet with a rather inflated sense of the importance of poetry. Consider the first stanza of "Prose" (pour des Esseintes):
Hyperbole! de ma memoire
Triophalement ne sais-tu
Te lever, aujourd'hui grimoire
Dans un livre de fer vetu:
On the one hand, it combines both of my pet peeves; on the other, it's only slightly more meaningful than outgrabing mome raths, and just as much fun to read.
This gleeful nonsensicality is everywhere, but mostly in the occasional or obviously minor poems. In "Billet," Mallarme manages to rhyme rebattu and tutu.
Of course Un Coup de des is a masterpiece and forward thinking and all that. But give me the glee. ( )