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Author Balakian, Anna, 1915-1997, author.

Title The fiction of the poet : from Mallarmé to the post-symbolist mode / Anna Balakian.

Publication Info. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1992]
©1992

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Description 1 online resource (214 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Princeton Legacy Library
Princeton legacy library.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Addressing all readers who value the beauty of language, Anna Balakian examines the work of five twentieth-century poets--Yeats, Valry, Rilke, Stevens, and Guilln--to show how the linguistic richness of the symbolist tradition continued well into the modern period. These writers, all of whom learned the poetry of language from Mallarm, compensated for the disappearance of metaphysical inclinations in early twentieth-century poetry by instituting a poetic fiction. Balakian finds the immersion of the ""I"" and its altered reflection in the work of art to be a common feature of their poetry, a.
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Subject Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898 -- Influence.
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898.
Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Poetry, Modern.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Symbolism (Literary movement)
Symbolism (Literary movement)
Symbolism in literature.
Symbolism in literature.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Balakian, Anna Elizabeth. Fiction of the poet : from Mallarmé to the post-symbolist mode. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1992] 201 pages ; 25 cm. Princeton legacy library 9780691608174
ISBN 9781400862566 (electronic book)
1400862566 (electronic book)
0691069468 (acid-free paper)
9780691069463
0691608172
9780691608174