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Stéphane Mallarmé ([[Paris]], March 18, 1842 – Valvins, September 9, 1898), whose [[real ]] [[name ]] was Étienne Mallarmé, was a [[French ]] poet and critic. He worked as an [[English ]] teacher, and spent much of his [[life ]] in relative poverty; but he 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]]. The group became known as les Mardistes, because they met on Tuesdays, and through it Mallarmé exerted considerable influence on the [[work ]] of a generation of writers (see below).

His earlier work owes a great deal to the style established by Charles Baudelaire. His fin-de-siècle style, on the [[other ]] hand, anticipates many of the fusions between poetry and the other [[arts ]] that were to blossom in the Dadaist, [[Surrealist]], and Futurist [[schools]], where the tension between the [[words ]] themselves and the way they were displayed on the page was explored. But whereas most of this latter work was concerned principally with [[form]], Mallarmé's work was more generally concerned with the interplay of style and [[content]]. This is particularly evident in the highly innovative Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard ('A roll of the dice will never abolish [[chance]]') of 1897, his last major [[poem]].

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