Studies in Poetic Discourse : Mallarme, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Hoelderlin

This study of four major poets - Mallarme, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Holderlin - examines the self-reflexivity of modern poetry, exploring questions concerning what it means for a poem to be "about" its own process of saying.

What does it mean to read and understand a text that is focused not on its content but on its saying?

What kind of relation does a writer have to the language used in a text?

How are we to think about the relation of content to the saying?