In reaction to the critics who tend to restrict Mallarme's influence to George's early work and who interpret George's mature work as a negation of Mallarme's lesson on the autonomy of art, this study sets out to analyse precisely the poetical politics of the last George as a distant continuation of the teachings by the author of Divagations. Thus the political aspect of George's work is
... [Show full abstract] reconsidered in light of its poetological basis. A comparative study of the concepts of symbolic language, rhythm, verse and theatre, of the Mallarmean "Type" and of the myth of Maximin, shows to what extent the "laws" of George's "New Reign" may be read as a realisation of what the Mallarmean concepts contain in a more virtual state.