Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé ( MAL-ar-MAY, French: [stefan malaʁme] (listen); 18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), pen name of Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism.