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Article: Stephane Mallarme. (poet)
- Article from:
- The American Poetry Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
- Author:
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I have been unable to discover any event in Mallarme's life that would appeal to the reader who thinks that poets have exciting lives. He was born in Paris on March 18, 1842, the son of an assistant director of Property Registration. He traveled to London. He married Marie Gerhard, obtained a certificate to teach English, and obtained a teaching position at Tournon. He admired the poems of Baudelaire - his own early poems are imitations of Baudelaire. He became acquainted with poets, among them Verlaine and Rimbaud. It would be interesting to know what Rimbaud thought of the village schoolmaster.
In 1865 le Parnasse contemporain published ten poems by Mallarme. In ...
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