Stéphane Mallarmé

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Stéphane Mallarmé (Critical Survey of Poetry)

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Stéphane Mallarmé is known chiefly for his poetry. A selection from his numerous critical essays and reviews, including some important theoretical statements, was published in Divagations (1897). Following the example of Charles Baudelaire, Mallarmé translated Edgar Allan Poe. He also published an idiosyncratic introduction to English philology, Petite Philologie à l’usage des classes et du monde: Les Mots anglais (1878; little philology...

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