The Tomb of Charles Baudelaire (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Stéphane Mallarmé
- First Published: 1895
- Type of Work: Sonnet
- Genres: Poetry, Sonnet
- Subjects: Prostitution or prostitutes, Poetry or poets, Death or dying, Gods or goddesses, Tombs or graves, Cemeteries, Lamps
The Poem
In the early period of his poetic career, Stéphane Mallarmé derived much of his use of imagery from the example of Charles Baudelaire’s verse. His homage to Baudelaire, however, written near the end of Mallarmé’s life, while still retaining the sonnet form and a few images that may have been found in the earlier style, attains a complexity of expression much beyond it.
The traditional Petrarchan sonnet is part of a loosely related sequence of poems honoring, also, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Verlaine, and Richard Wagner. Each sonnet uses the image of a...
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