Étienne Mallarmé, known professionally as Stéphane 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stéphane Mallarmé, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.