Selected Letters of Stephane Mallarme Author:Stephane Mallarme It is the reading world's good fortune that St9phane Mallarm9's letters survived, allowing later generations an intimate look at the inner life of one of Europe's most important poets. Mallarm9 (1842-98), often called the father of the Symbolists, has had an immense influence on the development of modern European po... more »etry. 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.« less