Mallarmé, Stéphane
(1842–1898)
Mallarmé, StéphaneMallarmé, StéphaneStéphane Mallarmé (B * PARIS, 1842 – D † VALVINS, 1898) Born Etienne Mallarmé, perhaps the best known representative of the poetic movement known as Symbolism. He was educated at Passy and the Lycée de Sens. He went to England in 1862 with Marie Gerhard (1835–1910), a German governess he met in Sens; they married in 1863, the year Mallarmé qualified as a teacher of English. He taught from 1863 to 1893 in many different locations in France, though his first…