In September 1926 Fry wrote a definitive essay on Seurat in "The Dial". Fry also spent ten years translating, "for his own pleasure", the poems of the symbolist poet Stephane Mallarmé Between 1929 and 1934, the BBC released a series of twelve broadcasts wherein Fry conveys his belief that art appreciation should begin with a sensibility to form as opposed to an inclination to praise art of high culture. Fry also argues that an African sculpture or a Chinese vase is just as deserving of study as a Greek sculpture.