Title: Collected poems /
Authors: Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898; Weinfield, Henry
Publisher: University of California Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Mallarmé, Stéphane, Translations into English.
Abstract: Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) is one of the giants of nineteenth-century French poetry. Leader of the Symbolist movement, he exerted a powerful influence on modern literature and thought, which can be traced in the works of Paul Valery, W. B. Yeats, Ferdinand de Saussure, and Jacques Derrida. From his early twenties until the time of his death, this great writer produced poems of astonishing originality and beauty, many of which have become classics. In the Collected Poems, Henry Weinfield brings the oeuvre of this European master to life for an English-speaking audience, essentially for the first time. All of the poems - in verse and prose - that the author chose to retain are here, superbly rendered by Weinfield in a translation that comes remarkably close to Mallarme's own voice. Weinfield conveys not simply the meaning but the spirit and music of the French originals.^
Contents: Salutation/Salut -- The Jinx/Le Guignon -- Apparition/Apparition -- Futile Petition/Placet Futile -- The Clown Chastised/Le Pitre Chatie -- A Negress/Une Negresse -- The Windows/Les Fenetres -- The Flowers/Les Fleurs -- Renewal/Renouveau -- Anguish/Angoisse -- Weary of Bitter Sleep/Las De L'Amer Repos -- The Bell-Ringer/Le Sonneur -- Summer Sadness/Tristesse D'Ete -- The Azure/L'Azur -- Sea Breeze/Brise Marine -- Sigh/Soupir -- Alms/Aumone -- Gift of the Poem/Don Du Poeme -- Herodiade: I. Ancient Overture/Ouverture Ancienne -- Herodiade: II. Scene/Scene -- Herodiade: III. Canticle of Saint John/Cantique De Saint Jean -- The Afternoon of a Faun/L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune -- The Flight of Flaming Hair/La Chevelure -- Saint/Sainte -- Funereal Toast (To Theophile Gautier)/Toast Funebre (A Theophile Gautier) -- Prose (For Des Esseintes)/Prose (Pour Des Esseintes) -- A Fan (Of Madame Mallarme)/Eventail (De Madame Mallarme) -- Another Fan (Of Mademoiselle Mallarme)/Autre Eventail (De Mademoiselle Mallarme).