Poésies (Mallarmé book)

Poésies

First edition title page
Author	Stéphane Mallarmé
Translator	Arthur Symons
Illustrator	Félicien Rops
Country	France
Language	French
Publisher	La Revue indépendante
Publication date	1887
Published in English	1986
Pages	143

Poésies is an 1887 poetry collection by the French writer Stéphane Mallarmé.

Publication

Poésies was first published in 1887 by La Revue indépendante. It was republished by Deman in 1899, the year after Mallarmé's death; this edition included an additional section where Mallarmé wrote about the background and circumstances under which most of the poems had been written.^[1] The book was translated to English by Arthur Symons, and first published in its entirety in 1986 by Tragara Press.^[2]

See also

• 1887 in poetry
• 19th-century French literature
• Symbolism (arts)

References

1. Zwerling Sugano, Marian (1992). The poetics of the occasion: Mallarmé and the poetry of circumstance. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. p. 15. ISBN 0-8047-1946-2.
2. Volsik, Paul; France, Peter (2000). "Poetry since Hugo". In France, Peter. The Oxford guide to literature in English translation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 285. ISBN 0-19-818359-3.