Stephane mallarme biography of martin

          That Stéphane Mallarmé is a massively influential poet is one of the least contentious things that can be said about him.

          At the age of fifty Stephane Mallarme () spoke of his published work as very precise reference points on my mind's journey....

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              *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.

          Stéphane Mallarmé (–) was a pioneering French poet and one of the foremost figures of the Symbolist movement.

        1. Stéphane Mallarmé (–) was a pioneering French poet and one of the foremost figures of the Symbolist movement.
        2. Defender of Manet and the other Impressionists, supporter of Zola and Rodin, Stephane Mallarme is nowadays regarded as one of the key figures of Modernism.
        3. At the age of fifty Stephane Mallarme () spoke of his published work as very precise reference points on my mind's journey.
        4. Celebrated as a singularly gifted poet and as a dazzling theorist, Mallarmé was also an accomplished correspondent, a sophisticated letter.
        5. His life was quiet and outwardly uneventful.
        6. His first poems started to appear in magazines in the 1860s. 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