Barbier, Carl Paul (d.c1993: Professor of French, University of Edinburgh, Scotland)

Carl Paul Barbier was Professor of French at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1964, he published Correspondence Mallarm-Whistler in France as well as editing several books of his poetry and correspondence for publication. He died c1993 .

Stphane Mallarm was born in Paris, France, in 1842 . He taught English from 1864 in Tournon, Besanon, Avignon and Paris until his retirement in 1893. Mallarm wrote poetry from an early age and was influenced by Charles Baudelaire with his first poetry being published in magazines in the 1860s. His most well known poem is probably L'Aprs Midi D'un Faun (The Afternoon of a Faun) (1865) which inspired Claude Debussy's tone poem (1894) of the same name and was illustrated by Manet. Among his other works are Hrodiade (1896) and Toast Funbre (A Funeral Toast), which was written in memory of the author Thopile Gautier. Mallarm's later works include the experimental poem Un Coup de Ds (1914), published posthumously.

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