After an undistinguished school career he spent a year in London, from November 1862 to November 1863, to gain an English teaching certificate. Stéphane Mallarmé-as he is known, although his birth certificate records his first name in its more usual French form of “Etienne”-was born into a middle-class family on Main Paris. His poetry became highly influential in France and beyond, including in the United States, among poets looking for new and innovative ways to write, during the turbulent times of the early 1900s. Much of his poetry was acknowledged to be difficult to understand because of its tortuous syntax, ambiguous expressions, and obscure imagery. Stéphane Mallarmé was recognized as one of France’s four major poets of the second half of the 19th century, along with Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, and Arthur Rimbaud.
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