critic

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poem

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Stephane Mallarme

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literary critic

poet

translator

nationality

French

art critic

illustrator

high school teacher

is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.

supresses three-quarters of the named object's poetic pleasure --  which consist in the joy of guessing bit by bit 'le suggerer, voila le reve!"

For Mallarme naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consist in the joy of guessing bit by bit 'le suggerer, voilà le rêve!'). Umberto Eco

you don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

is not made of ideas, they are made of words.

Mallarmé famously admonished Degas by saying that poems are not made of ideas, they are made of words. In turn the conceptualists have refuted Mallarmé by making poems out of ideas.

is a sacred spider, the inventor of a marvelous lacework.

Mallarmé described himself as a “sacred spider,” the inventor of a “marvelous lacework,” The appearance of “On Toss of the Dice” thus colluded, in its lacy lack of transitions, with the Lumière brother’s cinématagraphe, which had burst upon the world late December 1895 and was barely up and running before Mallarmé began his optical oeuvre. Bravely conceived and fiercely written against the long tradition of verbal poetry, “One Toss of the Dice” marked a great shift in the direction of the visuality of our own era, with still and moving projections, hand-held personal data devices, monitors, and screens.

is the attempt to suppress the author in order to restore the place of the reader.

Mallarme's entire poetics consist in suppressing the author in the interests of writing (which is, as will be seen, to restore the place of the reader). (Barthes 1977 : 143)

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