Abstract: Over a year after having read, often by night and with pencil in hand, Stéphane Mallarmé’s Correspondance 1854-1898, published in 2019 by Gallimard, I decided to return to my underlined phrases and notes in the margins and delve into these moments of the Correspondance that I’d marked for attention. This article, which responds to citations from Mallarmé’s letters, though originating in the haphazard reactions of a first reading, is ultimately concerned with the poetry in (and by) Correspondance.
