{"id":26681,"date":"2011-10-14T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T04:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=26681"},"modified":"2011-10-14T00:00:26","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T04:00:26","slug":"frye-quote-of-the-day-stephane-mallarme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/10\/14\/frye-quote-of-the-day-stephane-mallarme\/","title":{"rendered":"St\u00e9phane Mallarm\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Maurice Ravel - Trois Po\u00e8mes de St\u00e9phane Mallarm\u00e9\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vw5qkLbHMsE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Ravel, &#8220;Trois po\u00e8mes de St\u00e9phane Mallarm\u00e9&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>More treasure from Bob Denham&#8217;s <\/strong><\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/denhams-essays-on-northrop-frye\/\" target=\"_blank\">Essays on Northrop Frye<\/a>, <em>&#8220;<\/em><em>Frye and St\u00e9phane Mallarm\u00e9&#8221;:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[A]lthough Mallarm\u00e9 speaks of God as an old scarecrow whom he has at last overcome,<a title=\"\" href=\"\/Users\/Owner\/Desktop\/Blog\/Bob's%20Essays\/20.%20Frye%20and%20Mallarme.docx#_edn1\">[i]<\/a> he also speaks in his letters of a symbolic death and resurrection that he has attained through his search for a pure poetry, and speaks also of the poet who creates in the teeth of <em>the<\/em> creation, so to speak, as though he were the vehicle of a holy spirit.\u00a0 \u201cMan\u2019s duty,\u201d he says, \u201cis to observe with the eyes of the divinity; for if his connection with that divinity is to be made clear, it can be expressed only by the pages of the open book in front of him.\u201d<a title=\"\" href=\"\/Users\/Owner\/Desktop\/Blog\/Bob's%20Essays\/20.%20Frye%20and%20Mallarme.docx#_edn2\">[ii]<\/a> \u00a0He also describes himself, in a letter to Cazalis, as \u201cone of the ways the Spiritual Universe has found to see Itself, unfold Itself through what used to be me.\u201d<a title=\"\" href=\"\/Users\/Owner\/Desktop\/Blog\/Bob's%20Essays\/20.%20Frye%20and%20Mallarme.docx#_edn3\">[iii]<\/a>\u00a0(457)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">*<\/div>\n<div>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" \/>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"\/Users\/Owner\/Desktop\/Blog\/Bob's%20Essays\/20.%20Frye%20and%20Mallarme.docx#_ednref1\">[i]<\/a> Frye is referring to the oft\u2011quoted passage in Mallarm\u00e9\u2019s letter to Henri Cazalis, 14 May 1867: \u201cI struggled with that creature of ancient and evil plumage [<em>vieux et m\u00e9chant plumage<\/em>]\u2013\u2013God\u2013\u2013whom I fortunately defeated and threw to earth\u201d (<em>Selected Poetry and Prose<\/em>, 87)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"\/Users\/Owner\/Desktop\/Blog\/Bob's%20Essays\/20.%20Frye%20and%20Mallarme.docx#_ednref2\">[ii]<\/a> The passage is from Mallarm\u00e9\u2019s \u201cThe Book: A Spiritual Instrument\u201d (<em>Selected Poetry and Prose<\/em>, 80).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"\/Users\/Owner\/Desktop\/Blog\/Bob's%20Essays\/20.%20Frye%20and%20Mallarme.docx#_ednref3\">[iii]<\/a> Letter to Henri Cazalis, 14 May 1867 (<em>Selected Poetry and Prose<\/em>, 87).\u00a0 In one of his early plans for <em>Words with Power<\/em> Frye proposed organizing the first three chapters on a Trinitarian scheme\u2013\u2013the Book of the Father, the Book of the Son, and the Book of the Spirit\u2013\u2013based on Joachim of Floris\u2019 theory of the three epochs.\u00a0 Only in the Age of the Spirit, according to Joachim, would humankind be able fully to understand spiritual truth.\u00a0 Mallarm\u00e9 was to be a part of the Book of the Spirit (<em>Late<\/em>,<em> <\/em>171).<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ravel, &#8220;Trois po\u00e8mes de St\u00e9phane Mallarm\u00e9&#8221; More treasure from Bob Denham&#8217;s Essays on Northrop Frye, &#8220;Frye and St\u00e9phane Mallarm\u00e9&#8221;: [A]lthough Mallarm\u00e9 speaks of God as an old scarecrow whom he has at last overcome,[i] he also speaks in his letters of a symbolic death and resurrection that he has attained through his search for a 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