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

But, however much Gorey owes to the Surrealists, I see in him, equally, their less fun-loving predecessors, the Symbolist poets and painters of the late nineteenth century: Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Khnopff, Munch, Puvis de Chavannes, Redon.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018

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

From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2018

Mallarmé observed that poetry is written not with ideas but with words; and the same is true with dance: it’s made in not with ideas but with movement.

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 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

Thus, to the interviewer, he referred to Stéphane Mallarmé as a "fumiste."

From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Arnold Bennett