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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)

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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

Consider the sonnet “Le vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd’hui,” whose first version probably dates from the late eighteen-sixties, when Mallarmé was in his mid-twenties.

From The New Yorker Apr. 11, 2016

Arguably, the Amundsen of fin-de-siècle art—the first to plant a flag at an outer extreme of artistic possibility—was the French poet Stéphane Mallarmé.

From The New Yorker Apr. 11, 2016

Like Baudelaire and like Mallarmé in France, Rossetti was not only a wholly original poet, but a new personal force in literature.

From Figures of Several Centuries by Symons, Arthur

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