Mallarmé

American  

[ma-lar-may] / ma larˈmeɪ /

noun

1. Stéphane 1842–98, French poet.

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Mallarmé British  

/ malarme /

noun

1. Stéphane (stefan). 1842–98, French symbolist poet, noted for his free verse, in which he chooses words for their evocative qualities; his works include L'Après-midi d'un Faune (1876), Vers et Prose (1893), and Divagations (1897)

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Mallarmé

The symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé, who would later inspire Man Ray’s Dadaist photographs and Claude Debussy’s atonal compositions, wrote in 1871 that it was “the most beautiful crockery I have ever known.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2021

He composed songs to texts by Baudelaire, Verlaine, Mallarmé and other French poets throughout his life.

From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2018

“Encrypted” by Alex Ross, New Yorker More than a century after his death, the inscrutable French poet Stéphane Mallarmé remains an enigma, his work a puzzle that only grows more vexing in translation.

From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2016

Writing of Mallarmé, the French philosopher Alain Badiou observed, “What the poem says, it does.”

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2016

Very true, and yet I find that Wedekind is "literary," that he could exclaim with Stephan Mallarmé: "La chair est triste, hélas! et j'ai lu tous les livres."

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker

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