Mallarmé

American  

[ma-lar-mey] / 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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Example Sentences

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

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2021

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

“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

Soon afterwards he played me his delicious Poèmes de Mallarmé.

From An Autobiography by Stravinsky, Igor