Stéphane Mallarmé (Critical Lives)
Language: English
Pages: 192
ISBN: B005CV215E
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
At the age of fifty Stephane Mallarme (1842-98) spoke of his published work as very precise reference points on my mind's journey. In "Stephane Mallarme", Roger Pearson charts that journey for the first time, blending a biographical account of the poet's life with a detailed analysis of his evolving poetic theory and practice. A poet on this earth must be uniquely a poet', he declared at the age of twenty-two, and he duly lived a poet's life. But what is a poet's life? What is a poet's function? In his poems, in complex prose statements, and by the example of his life, Mallarme provided answers to these questions. To Mallarme, being a poet meant many things: a continuous, lifelong investigation of language and its expressive potential; and bringing people together, as much in life as in poetry. His Tuesday salons were famous with visitors including Yeats, Rilke and Verlaine, as well as the artists Manet, Renoir, Whistler and Gauguin; his poetry inspired music by Debussy, Ravel and Boulez; and his poem "A Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance" spread over 20 pages and combining verse with varied typography inspires poets and visual artists to this day. Poetry was a way of bringing all human beings together in heightened awareness and an understanding of the magnificent act of living. "Stephane Mallarme" chronicles a fascinating and utterly unique voice in French poetry. It will not only prove an essential resource for students of English and French literature, but an engaging book for anyone interested in nineteenth-century France.
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Form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers. Printed and bound in Great Britain by cpi Antony Rowe, Chippenham, Wiltshire British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Pearson, Roger Stephane Mallarme. – (Critical lives) 1. Mallarme, Stephane, 1842–1898. 2. Poets, French 19th century Biography. I. Title II. Series 841.8-dc22 isbn 978 1 86189 659 9 Contents Introduction: Critical Moments 9 1 Classrooms 15 2.
Himself recently widowed, died of tuberculosis at the age of 34, without seeing his brainchild, the Tombeau de Théophile Gautier, come into the world. On 5 September Ettie Maspero, née Yapp, died of puerperal fever five days after the birth of her second child. She was 27. Four years later Mallarmé would send her widower, the Egyptologist Gaston Maspero, a sonnet, dated on All Souls’ Day, in which the now familiar argument is again put forward. On this occasion the poem is couched in the voice of.
Firm friends during the remainder of his life. Her taste for display and her enthusiasm for the fashionable accessory of the fan may explain the affectionate nickname of Paon (Peacock) that he gave her, for the poems that she inspired (including three 125 sonnets, a rondel, a song and other pieces of occasional verse) include reference to her coquettish deployment of this fan(tail) to disguise – and, of course, thereby suggest – the imminent possibility of a warm laugh or even a kiss. He now.
More delighted the following year when Mallarmé played a key role in persuading the French state to purchase his Arrangement in Gray and Black: 147 James McNeill Whistler’s lithograph portrait of Mallarmé for use as the frontispiece of Vers et Prose (1892), here with Whistler’s dedication ‘To my Mallarmé’. Mallarmé thought this portrait ‘a marvel’ and the only one truly to capture him: ‘I’m giving myself a smile’. Portrait of the Artist’s Mother. The price may have been slightly disappointing,.
Or red-blooded bomb-throwing anarchists like Vaillant. Neither analogy, of course, is valid, and taken together they contradict each other. Rather the writer belongs to a minority who regard it as their duty to use everyday language – ‘words, the apt words of school, home and marketplace’ (oc, ii. 73) – to communicate a truth that is grounded in universal human experience. For contemporary political leaders are themselves at fault. Whether it be the divine right of kings, the dictatorship of the.