Stéphane Mallarmé: astrology, horoscope, natal chart

Stéphane Mallarmé (French IPA: ) (March 18, 1842 – September 9, 1898), whose real name was Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was born in Paris. 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 (in French, mardi), 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 ot...