Mallarmé : : The Poet and His Circle / / Rosemary Lloyd.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Lloyd, Rosemary,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 12 halftones

Upon his death in 1898, the French Symbolist poet Stephane Mallarmé (b. 1842) left behind a body of published work which though modest in quantity was to have a seminal influence on subsequent poetry and aesthetic theory. He also enjoyed an unparalleled reputation for extending help and encouragement to those who sought him out. Rosemary Lloyd has produced a fascinating literary biography of the poet and his period, offering a subtle exploration of the mind and letters of one of the giants of modern European poetry.Every Tuesday, from the late 1870s on, Mallarmé hosted gatherings that became famous as the "Mardis" and that were attended by a cross section of significant writers, artists, thinkers, and musicians in fin-de-siecle France, England, and Belgium. Through these gatherings and especially through a voluminous correspondence-eventually collected in eleven volumes-Mallarmé developed and recorded his friendships with Paul Valery, Andre Gide, Berthe Morisot, and many others. Attractively written and scrupulously documented, Mallarme: The Poet and His Circle is unique in offering a biographical account of the poet's literary practice and aesthetics which centers on that correspondence.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION. Corresponding -- INTERLUDE ONE. Reading in Mallarme's Letters -- CHAPTER ONE. Writing in Exile -- INTERLUDE TWO. Depression -- CHAPTER TWO. Finding a Voice -- INTERLUDE THREE. Father and Daughter -- CHAPTER THREE. Forging an Aesthetic -- INTERLUDE FOUR. Love and Friendship -- CHAPTER FOUR. Becoming a Symbol -- INTERLUDE FIVE. "A Passerby Seeking Refuge": Poetry, Politics, and Bombs -- CONCLUSION. Remembering the Dead -- APPENDIX. "Crise de vers" -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index