Mallarmé by Christine North

A specialist in the university teaching of Mallarmé, Christine North brings to this representative selection a sure poetic and academic authority. Nuanced and exacting, these remarkable translations convey to the English reader the formal and linguistic consequences of Mallarmé's implacable interrogation of the problem of meaning. Capturing the great French poet's unique music, North offers us a searching account of an unprecedented existential journey. George Steiner has observed that, reading Mallarmé, "we stand ... at the precise source of philosophic and aesthetic modernity": this pamphlet directs us to that source.

Mallarmé by Christine North (ISBN: 1-905649-02-9 / 978-1-905649-02-0)
	A specialist in the university teaching of Mallarmé, Christine North brings to this representative selection a sure poetic and academic authority. Nuanced and exacting, these remarkable translations convey to the English reader the formal and linguistic consequences of Mallarmé's implacable interrogation of the problem of meaning. Capturing the great French poet's unique music, North offers us a searching account of an unprecedented existential journey. George Steiner has observed that, reading Mallarmé, "we stand ... at the precise source of philosophic and aesthetic modernity": this pamphlet directs us to that source.
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		2.+++++++Apparition The moon grieved. Pensive, tearful seraphim, Fingering their bows amidst the calm Of vaporous flowers, drew from dying viols, Swooning through azure petals, long white sighs. – It was the sacred day of your first kiss. My fancy finding in my pain its bliss Drank in the heady scent of sadness left – Yet without disillusion or regret – By a Dream gathered in the gatherer’s thoughts. So, gazing at the worn kerbstones, I walked When, tresses filled with sunshine, in the road And in the evening, laughing, you appeared – I thought I saw the fairy capped with light Who through my pampered childhood’s sleep-filled nights Once passed, and always from each half-closed palm White showers of stars snowed softly, scented, down.
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