Mallarme Wagner: Music and Poetic Language

This book challenges and replaces the existing view of Mallarm mission to ''re-possess'' music on behalf of poetic language. Traditionally, this view focused on only the last fifteen years of the poet''s life, and sprang from a belief in Mallarm ''sudden awakening'' to music during an all-Wagner concert in Paris, in 1885. Professor Heath Lees shows that Mallarm early knowledge and experience of ...