Contents: Introduction; Divergences and convergences; Music and Mallarmé's generation; Wagner and France; Mallarmé's Wagnériste influences: Baudelaire, Catulle Mendès, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam; The attempt to repossess music: 1860–1865; The attempt to repossess music: 1865–1869; Other musicalized poems of the Hérodiade years; Homage to Wagner and the way ahead; Bibliography; Index.
