Stephane Mallarmé (1842-1898) French poet and writer.
Mallarmé was a major French symbolist poet and rightly famed for his salons, occasional gatherings of intellectuals at his house for discussions of poetry, art, philosophy.
His fin-de-siecle style is anticipatory of many of the developments in fusions between art and poetry which were to blossom in the Dadaist?, Surrealist and Futurist? schools, where the tension between the words on the page and the way in which they were displayed was paramount. But whereas most of the latter work was concerned principally with form, Mallarmé's work was concerned with style and content: this is particularly evident in the highly innovative [Un Coup de Dés]? (trans. "A roll of the dice") of 1897, his last major poem.
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