''Poésies'' is an 1887 poetry collection by the French writer
Stéphane Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé ( , ; 18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), pen name of Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of ...
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Publication
''Poésies'' was first published in 1887 by ''La Revue indépendante''. It was republished by
Edmond Deman Edmond Deman (1857–1918) was a publisher, antiquarian bookseller and prints dealer in fin-de-siècle Brussels.Adrienne and Luc Fontainas, "Deman, Edmond", ''Nouvelle Biographie Nationale''vol. 4(Brussels, 1997), pp. 109-112.
Life
Deman was born ...
in 1899, the year after Mallarmé's death; this edition included an additional section where Mallarmé wrote about the background and circumstances under which most of the poems had been written. The book was translated to English by
Arthur Symons
Arthur William Symons (28 February 186522 January 1945) was a British poet, critic and magazine editor.
Life
Born in Milford Haven, Wales, to Cornish parents, Symons was educated privately, spending much of his time in France and Italy. In 1884 ...
, and first published in its entirety in 1986 by Tragara Press.
See also
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1887 in poetry
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19th-century French literature
19th-century French literature concerns the developments in French literature during a dynamic period in French history that saw the rise of Democracy and the fitful end of Monarchy and Empire. The period covered spans the following political re ...
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Symbolism (arts)
Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French art, French and Art of Belgium, Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction aga ...
References
1887 books
French poetry collections
Poetry by Stéphane Mallarmé
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