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 | | Mallarmé was a major French symbolist poet and rightly famedfor his salons, occasional gatherings of intellectuals at his house for discussions of poetry, art, philosophy. |
 | | His fin-de-siecle style is anticipatory of many of thedevelopments in fusions between art and poetry which were to blossom in the Dadaist, Surrealist and Futurist schools,where the tension between the words on the page and the way in which they were displayed was paramount. |
 | | Mallarmé's poetry has been compared to music, and has been the inspiration for several musical pieces, notably Claude Debussy 's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1894), afree interpretation of Mallarmé's poem L'Après-Midi d'un faune (1876) which creates powerfulimpressions by the use of striking but isolated phrases. |
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