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Arthur Rimbaud

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Arthur Rimbaud , 1854-91, French poet who had a great influence on the symbolists and subsequent modern poets, b. Charleville. A defiant and precocious youth, Rimbaud at 16 sent some poems to Verlaine , who liked his work and invited him to Paris. In 1872-73 the two poets lived together in London and Brussels. In a drunken quarrel Verlaine fired a pistol, wounding Rimbaud, and their relationship ended. Rimbaud returned home and finished Une Saison en enfer (1873), a confessional autobiography in which he renounces his former hellish life and his work. At an undetermined time he produced... Read more

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), the marvelous boy-poet of French literature...give up poetry at the age of 19. The tempestuous life of Arthur Rimbaud his relations with Paul Verlaine, his idea of the poet... Read more

Rimbaud, Arthur
Rimbaud, Arthur (1854–91) French anarchic poet, who influenced symbolism . Rimbaud had a stormy relationship with Paul Verlaine...published Les Illuminations as the work of the late Arthur Rimbaud. Read more

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