Stephane mallarme biography meaning

    *Stéphane Mallarmé was born in Paris in 1842. He taught English in from 1864 in Tournon, Besançon, Avignon and Paris until his retirement in 1893.

Malarmé began writing poetry at an early age under the influence of Charles Baudelaire. His first poems started to appear in magazines in the 1860s.

Stephane mallarme biography meaning of name

Mallarmé's most well known poems are L'Aprés Midi D'un Faun (The Afternoon of a Faun)  (1865), which inspired Debussy's tone poem (1894) of the same name and was illustrated by Manet. Among his other works are Hérodiade (1896) and Toast Funèbre  (A Funeral Toast), which was written in memory of the author Théopile Gautier.

Mallarmé's later works include the experimental poem Un Coup de Dés (1914), published posthumously. 
     From the 1880s Mallarmé was the center of a group of french writers in Paris, including André G