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Mallarmé

American  
[ma-lar-mey] / ma larˈmeɪ /

noun

  1. Stéphane 1842–98, French poet.


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)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“After finding Nothingness, I have found Beauty,” Mallarmé wrote.

From New York Times Feb. 25, 2021

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

Mallarmé took a certain pride in the drabness of his lineage, describing himself as the scion of an “uninterrupted series of functionaries in the Administration and the Registry.”

From The New Yorker Apr. 11, 2016

From Sartre and Lacan to Blanchot and Derrida and on to Badiou, Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Rancière, French thinkers have defined themselves through interpretations of Mallarmé.

From The New Yorker Apr. 11, 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

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