Selected Poems of Mallarme, Bilingual edition

The leading poet of French symbolism, Stéphane Mallarmé has exercised an enormous influence both on French and on English and American avant—garde writers. In this volume C. F. MacIntyre has translated forty—three of his poems, including the "Ouverture" and "Scène" from Hérodiade, which was to have been a drama in verse, and the well—known L'Après—midi d'un faune, for which Debussy composed his orchestral prelude. The French text faces the English translations, which are both true to the or...