In 19th-century French literary circles, Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898) was celebrated as the high priest of the Symbolist movement, artificer of intricately musical lyrics of resonant and vertiginous ...

The Book by Stéphane Mallarmé, translated by Sylvia Gorelick and published by Exact Change In his 1897 essay “Crisis of Verse,” Stéphane Mallarmé writes of a particular moment in poetry: Victor Hugo ...

A year before his death in 1898, French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé published his chef d’oeuvre, a 20-odd-page poem titled “Un Coup De Des Jamais N’abolira Le Hasard” (One Toss of the Dice Will ...

Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898). L’après-midi d’un faune. Églogue (The Afternoon of a Faun. Eclogue)… avec frontispice, fleurons & cul-de-lampe [par Édouard Manet]. Paris: Alphonse Derenne, 1876. Signed ...

"English and French are a single language," Wallace Stevens wrote in his "Adagia". While French poetry was a huge influence on English-language modernism, not all shared Stevens's belief in the ...

If Stéphane Mallarmé was not the greatest poet of modern times—although an impressive case for that, too, could be mounted—he was certainly the most poetic. And poetic not only in his work, but also ...

The artist Maira Kalman has always had an idiosyncratic approach to defining elegance, having co-authored a book titled “(un)Fashion,” and illustrated E. B. White’s “The Elements of Style.” For the ...

I am creating a language which must necessarily spring from a quite new conception of poetry, and I define it in these words: To paint, not the thing, but the effect which it produces. —Stéphane ...

My friend Gordon Millan, who has died aged 74, was a scholar of French literature of the belle époque and an authority on the great French poet Stéphane Mallarmé. Gordon was born in Kirkcaldy, in Fife ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information French Forum is a journal of French and Francophone literature and film. It publishes articles in English and French on all periods ...

Death – whispers softly – I am no one – I do not even know myself (for dead do not know that they are dead –, nor even that they are dying – for children at least – or heroes – sudden deaths – for ...