Interesting post, Bill.
I don't know much about Mallarmé, but after a little checking I read that he learned English before traveling to England in 1862, and he said the main reason for learning the language was "the better to read Poe."
It seems that Mallarmé believed the sounds and shapes of words are as important as the meanings of words, that word sounds are more evocative and emotive than word definitions. This seems similar to the medium is the message notion.
Richard
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