1842-1898. French poet who founded the
Symbolist school with Paul Verlaine. His
belief that poetry should be evocative and
suggestive was reflected in L'Apres-midi d'un
faune/Afternoon of a Faun 1876, which
inspired the composer Debussy. Later works
are Poesies completes/Complete Poems 1887,
Vers et prose/Verse and Prose 1893, and the
prose Divagations/Digressions 1897.