In the new Humanities Steve Moyer describes: 'What Happened When Stéphane Mallarmé Reimagined the Book', in Playing Against Type -- profiling this poet and writer who was also a: "barely competent teacher" with his own literary-pedagogical notions:
Though his students were unable to render a phrase like "bring me some bread and cheese," he insisted that they attempt to translate literary passages by relying on intuition and attending to the sound of the language for clues to meaning.[Aside: an NEH publication that writes the name as: 'Edgar Allen Poe' (twice !) -- for shame.]