Stephen MacKenna
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Stephen MacKenna was an Irish translator of Plotinus
. In Joyce's Ulysses
, the librarian Richard Best says, "Mallarmé
, don't you know, has written those wonderful prose poems Stephen MacKenna used to read to me in Paris" (9.112).
Journal and Letters of Stephen MacKenna. Ed. E. R. Dodds. New York: Morrow, 1937.
Plotinus
Plotinus was a major philosopher of the ancient world. In his system of theory there are the three principles: the One, the Intellect, and the Soul. His teacher was Ammonius Saccas and he is of the Platonic tradition...
. In Joyce's Ulysses
Ulysses (novel)
Ulysses is a novel by the Irish author James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, in Paris. One of the most important works of Modernist literature,...
, the librarian Richard Best says, "Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé , whose real name was Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurism.-Biography:Stéphane...
, don't you know, has written those wonderful prose poems Stephen MacKenna used to read to me in Paris" (9.112).
Journal and Letters of Stephen MacKenna. Ed. E. R. Dodds. New York: Morrow, 1937.