Word: writer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Mallarme is obscure but he is not the only writer who possesses this defect and he is incomprehensible only to those who will not take the trouble to read him. The obscurity of his works is but the consequence of his aesthetics. Mallarme coined for himself a distinctive language and his poetry as a musical art, writing poems with the aim of creating an emotion by the same means by which music moves...
...prison, spending his time in introspective meditation. This led to his becoming a Roman Catholic, and to the writing of "Sagesse" in 1880. His existence was two fold, - either spent in debauchery and sensual crimes, or in meditation upon the delights of mystic religion. He was essentially a personal writer, and we can not know his works well until we know the man himself. His greatest service to French verse was in the music be added to French poetry. He was thoroughly artistic, and usually full of painstaking care though his works are very uneven. His verse is always frank...
...life. "Let him," says the circular, "imagine that he is writing without reserve to some friend at a distance who has been long absent from Cambridge, and who has lost touch with the ordinary current of life here, but retains as interest in it al, and let the writer try to call up for his friend's benefit, in detail and as vividly as possible, a picture of what is taking place...
...writer is of course at liberty to give, if he chooses, a more comprehensive account of undertakings in which he is, or has been, engaged. A brief account of his ordinary occupations and course of life during the summer would in all cases be a desirable addition...
...chest is to remain absolutely closed until the year 1925; and no general use of the records will be permitted earlier than 1960. Between 1925 and 1960, however, any individual record may be opened and used if the writer has dies and his family or literary executors wish the material for biographical purposes. All other records to remain intact and unopened until the year...