It is the reading world's good fortune that St???phane Mallarm???'s letters survived, allowing later generations an intimate look at the inner life of one of Europe's most important poets. Mallarm??? (1842-98), often called the father of the Symbolists, has had an immense influence on the development of modern European poetry. It was his ambition to create a poetry pure of quotidian reality--autonomous, concentrated, linguistically inventive. His correspondence documents the evolution of this aim, the crafting of a poetics ...
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It is the reading world's good fortune that St???phane Mallarm???'s letters survived, allowing later generations an intimate look at the inner life of one of Europe's most important poets. Mallarm??? (1842-98), often called the father of the Symbolists, has had an immense influence on the development of modern European poetry. It was his ambition to create a poetry pure of quotidian reality--autonomous, concentrated, linguistically inventive. His correspondence documents the evolution of this aim, the crafting of a poetics out of a life inescapably "real" in its pains and charms.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 9x6x0; University of Chicago Press, 1988; First Printing with full number line. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; grey cloth boards in VG condition, corners sharp, gilt titling remains bright and bold; text also very good. Very minor wear to edges of unclipped dust jacket. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
