shortstoryfan
05-27-2012, 12:36 AM
Mallarmé was recently added to the pages at Poets.org, the website for the Academy of American Poets. http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1284
I was quite surprised at what I found! I think I had maybe glimpsed things that mostly set him up as the "heir of Baudelaire" so to speak--but these poems seemed altogether fascinating and unordinary to me! I guess I like poetry with the seams showing, if that makes sense.
I looked into the translators--Paul Auster and Henry Weinfield--and found they had translated A Tomb for Anatole and a Collected Poems respectively. Many poets whose translations are almost as famous as the original work--I would think Richard Howard's translation of Les Fleurs du Mal and Robert Fagles translations of Greek literature would be examples. Does anyone know if this kind of translation exists for Mallarmé? I mean, a generally held translation par excellence.
I was quite surprised at what I found! I think I had maybe glimpsed things that mostly set him up as the "heir of Baudelaire" so to speak--but these poems seemed altogether fascinating and unordinary to me! I guess I like poetry with the seams showing, if that makes sense.
I looked into the translators--Paul Auster and Henry Weinfield--and found they had translated A Tomb for Anatole and a Collected Poems respectively. Many poets whose translations are almost as famous as the original work--I would think Richard Howard's translation of Les Fleurs du Mal and Robert Fagles translations of Greek literature would be examples. Does anyone know if this kind of translation exists for Mallarmé? I mean, a generally held translation par excellence.