Papers of Carl Paul Barbier, Professor of French, University of Edinburgh, relating to the author Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898)

Papers of Carl Paul Barbier relating to Stéphane Mallarmé. Mainly copies of Mallarmé's correspondence with other literary figures. Poems and other works by Mallarmé. Includes photographs and documents relating to Mallarmé family

Carl Paul Barbier was Professor of French at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1964, he published Correspondence Mallarmé-Whistler in France as well as editing several books of his poetry and correspondence for publication. He died c1993.

Stéphane Mallarmé was born in Paris, France, in 1842. He taught English from 1864 in Tournon, Besanon, Avignon and Paris until his retirement in 1893. Mallarmé wrote poetry from an early age and was influenced by Charles Baudelaire with his first poetry being published in magazines in the 1860s. From the 1880s Mallarmé was the centre of a group of French writers in Paris, including André Gide and Paul Valéry. Mallarmé's vers libre and word music shaped the 1890s Decadent movement. For the rest of his life Mallarmé devoted himself to putting his literary theories into practice and writing his Grand Oeuvre (Great Work). Mallarmé died in Paris on 9 September 1898 without completing this work.

Source: http://www.studiocleo.com/librarie/mallarme/biography.html.

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Gift : Marie Barbier : 1994 : ACCN 4596

Gift : Marie Barbier : 1996 : ACCN 4661

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Gift : Francesca Greene : 1997 : ACCN 4697

Some material is copied from the Bibliothque Nationale, Paris