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STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ

Collected Poems and Other Verse

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Translated with Notes by

E. H. and A. M. BLACKMORE

With an Introduction by

ELIZABETH McCOMBIE

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COLLECTED POEMS AND OTHER VERSE

STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ, the descendant of (in his own words) ‘an uninterrupted succession of civil servants’, was born in Paris in 1842. His life was quiet and outwardly uneventful. He married in 1863 and taught English from that year until 1893, at first in various French provincial schools, and later in Paris. He had two children, Geneviève (1864–1919) and Anatole (1871–9). His verse was collected as Poésies (Poetical Works), first in a de-luxe limited edition (1887) and then, more fully, in 1899; his prose poems appeared in Divagations (Diversions, 1897). The definitive text of Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard (A Dice Throw At Any Time Never Will Abolish Chance) was not published until 1913. He died at Valvins in 1898, little known to the general public but greatly admired by his literary colleagues, who had elected him Prince of Poets (in succession to Verlaine) in 1896.

E. H. and A. M. BLACKMORE have edited and translated eleven volumes of French literature, including Six French Poets of the Nineteenth Century and The Essential Victor Hugo (both in Oxford World’s Classics). Their work has been awarded the American Literary Translators’ Association Prize and the Modern Language Association Scaglione Prize for Literary Translation.

ELIZABETH MCCOMBIE is a Junior Research Fellow in French at St John’s College, University of Oxford. She is the author of Mallarmé and Debussy: Unheard Music, Unseen Text (Oxford, 2003). She lives in London with her husband and daughter.

Introduction

Note on the Text and Translation

Select Bibliography

A Chronology of Stéphane Mallarmé

COLLECTED POEMS AND OTHER VERSE

Poésies/Poetical Works

A Punishment for the Clown

[«Las de l’amer repos … »]

Anguish

[‘Weary of bitter rest …’]

L’Après-midi d’un faune

A Faun in the Afternoon

[«La chevelure vol … »]

Sainte

[‘The hair flight of a flame …’]

Saint

Toast funèbre

Funerary Toast

Prose (pour des Esseintes)

Prose (for des Esseintes)

Éventail (de Madame Mallarmé)

Autre éventail (de Mademoiselle Mallarmé)

Fan (Belonging to Mme Mallarmé)

Another Fan (Belonging to Mlle Mallarmé)

Feuillet d’album

Remémoration d’amis belges

Album Leaf

Remembering Belgian Friends

II (La Marchande d’herbes aromatiques)

Billet

II (The Seller of Scented Herbs)

[« Quand l’ombre menaça … »]

[ « Le vierge, le vivace … »]

[« Victorieusement fui … »]

[«Ses purs ongles très haut … »]

A Few Sonnets

[‘When the shade threatened …’]

[‘This virginal long-living …’]

[‘The fine suicide fled …’]

[‘With her pure nails …’]

Le Tombeau d’Edgar Poe

Le Tombeau de Charles Baudelaire

The Tomb of Edgar Allan Poe

The Tomb of Charles Baudelaire

Hommage [« Le silence déjà funèbre …»]

I («Tout Orgueil fume-t-il du soir … »)

Homage [‘Already mourning …’]

I (‘Does every Pride …’)

II («Surgi de la croupe et du bond … »)

II (‘Arisen from the rump …’)

III («Une dentelle s’abolit … »)

III (‘A lace vanishes …’)

[«Quelle soie aux baumes de temps … »]

[‘What silk with balm from advancing days …’]

[«M’introduire dans ton histoire … »]

[«A la nue accablante tu … »]

[‘To introduce myself into your tale …’]

[‘Stilled beneath the oppressive cloud …’]

[«Mes bouquins refermés … »]

[‘My old tomes closed upon the name Paphos …’]

Anecdotes ou Poèmes/Anecdotes or Poems

Le Phénomène futur

The Future Phenomenon

Le Démon de l’analogie

Un spectacle interrompu

The Pipe

An Interrupted Performance

Réminiscence

Reminiscence

La Déclaration foraine

The Announcement at the Fair

Poème: Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard

Poem: A Dice Throw At Any Time Never Will Abolish Chance

APPENDIX I Poems Uncollected by Mallarmé

… Mysticis umbraculis

… In the Mystical Shadows

Sonnet [« Souvent la vision … »]

Haine du pauvre

Sonnet [‘Often the Poet …’]

Hatred of the Poor

[«Parce que de la viande … »]

Le Château de l’espérance

[‘Because a bit of roast …’]

The Castle of Hope

[«Une négresse par le démon secouée … »]

[‘A negress aroused by the devil …’]

Hérodiade: Ouverture

Herodias: Overture

Dans le Jardin

Sonnet [«Sur les bois oubliés … »]

In the Garden

Sonnet [‘When sombre winter …’]

[«Rien, au réveil, que vous n’ayez … »]

Sonnet [«O si chère de loin … »]

[‘Nothing on waking …’]

Sonnet [‘O so dear from afar …’]

[«Dame Sans trop d’ardeur … »]

[«Si tu veux nous nous aimerons … »]

[‘Lady Without too much passion …’]

[‘If you wish we shall make love …’]

Types de la rue

Le Marchand d’ail et d’oignons

The Seller of Garlic and Onions

The Roadmender

The Newsboy

The Quarryman’s Wife

La Marchande d’habits

Le Vitrier

Éventail (de Méry Laurent)

The Old Clothes Woman

The Glazier

Fan (Belonging to Méry Laurent)

Hommage [« Toute Aurore même gourde … »]

Petit Air (guerrier)

Homage [‘Every Dawn however numb …’]

Little Ditty (Warlike)

[«Toute l’âme résumée … »]

Tombeau [« Le noir roc courroucé … »]

[‘All the soul that we evoke …’]

Tomb [‘The black rock, cross …’]

[« Au seul souci de voyager … »]

Hérodiade: Le Cantique de saint Jean

[‘For the sole task of travelling …’]

Herodias: Canticle of John the Baptist

APPENDIX 2 Vers de circonstances/Occasional Verses

Les Loisirs de la poste

Postal Recreations

Éventails

Fans

Offrandes à divers du Faune

Presenting the Faun to Various People

Invitation à la soirée d’inauguration de la Revue indépendante

Invitation to the Inaugural Soirée of the Revue indépendante

Toast [«Comme un cherché de sa province … »]

Toast [‘As a man sought from his own province …’]

Explanatory Notes

Index of Titles and First Lines

INTRODUCTION

Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) is renowned as a radical innovator of verse and has achieved monumental status in his field due not least to the extraordinary intellectual and artistic influence of his work. His modernity is still striking today, even when put next to avant-garde poets such as Henri Michaux and Paul Eluard.

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