Stéphane Mallarmé

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French poet Symbolist poet essayist human literary critic poet teacher translator

Stéphane Mallarmé was a pioneering 19th-century French Symbolist poet whose highly innovative, allusive verse and theoretical writings profoundly shaped modern poetry and literary modernism.

Aliases (1)

Étienne Mallarmé ×1

Statements (68)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French poet → Symbolist poet → essayist → human → literary critic → poet → teacher → translator →
burialPlace	Cimetière de Samoreau →
causeOfDeath	laryngeal spasm →
centralConcept	pure poetry → the Book as absolute work →
child	Anatole Mallarmé → Geneviève Mallarmé →
contributedTo	literary modernism →
correspondedWith	Paul Verlaine → Rainer Maria Rilke → Villiers de l’Isle-Adam →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
dateOfBirth	1842-03-18 →
dateOfDeath	1898-09-09 →
era	19th century →
fullName	Étienne Mallarmé →
genre	literary criticism → poetry → prose poetry →
givenName	Étienne →
hosted	Tuesday salons →
influenced	André Gide → Ezra Pound → Maurice Maeterlinck → Paul Claudel → Paul Valéry → T. S. Eliot → Wallace Stevens →
influencedBy	Charles Baudelaire → Edgar Allan Poe → Paul Verlaine → Théophile Gautier →
knownFor	complex syntax → highly allusive verse → theoretical writings on poetry →
languageOfWorkOrName	French →
movement	Decadent movement → Symbolism →
nativeLanguage	French →
notableWork	Divagations → L’Après-midi d’un faune → Poésies → Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard →
occupation	English teacher → journalist → poet →
placeOfBirth	France → Paris →
placeOfDeath	France → Valvins → Vulaines-sur-Seine →
pseudonym	Stéphane Mallarmé →
religion	Roman Catholicism →
residence	Avignon → Besançon → Paris → Tournon-sur-Rhône →
spouse	Maria Christina Gerhard →
studentOf	English language and literature →
taughtAt	Lycée Condorcet → various French lycées →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Charles Baudelaire → Edgar Allan Poe → Paul Verlaine →	influenced
Stéphane Mallarmé ("Étienne Mallarmé") →	fullName
Symbolism →	hasKeyFigure
Café Guerbois circle →	hasMember
Decadentism →	hasNotableFigure
Jean Moréas →	influencedBy
Stéphane Mallarmé →	pseudonym