He noted in "Brise Marine" that "alas, I have read all the books," though he also claimed that all the world was to end up in a Book.  
Paul de Man's Blindness and Insight opens with this man's "surprising news" at an Oxford lecture that the rules of verse had changed.  He noted in "Brise Marine" that "alas, I have read all the books," though he also claimed that all the world was to end up in a Book.  A shipwreck appears throughout his 1897 long poem, whose title, ending "will never abolish chance" spreads over twenty pages amidst white space and typographical experiments.  In addition to writing about the tombs of his friends Gautier, Baudelaire, and Verlaine, he wrote a poem whose speaker "pined for the primal A" while dreaming of nymphs dancing to his flute.   Name this author of  A Throw of the Dice and "Afternoon of a Faun," a leading Symbolist.
Paul de Man's Blindness and Insight opens with this man's "surprising news" at an Oxford lecture that the rules of verse had changed.  
Stephane {Mallarmé }(2) [DL]