Rimbaud

[ ram-boh; French ran-boh ]

noun

1. (Jean Ni·co·las) Ar·thur [zhah, n, nee-kaw-, lah, , a, r, -, tyr], 1854–91, French poet.

Rimbaud

/ rɛ̃bo /

noun

1. RimbaudArthur18541891MFrenchWRITING: poet Arthur (artyr). 1854–91, French poet, whose work, culminating in the prose poetry of Illuminations (published 1884), greatly influenced the symbolists. A Season in Hell (1873) draws on his tempestuous homosexual affair with Verlaine, after which he abandoned writing (aged about 20) and spent the rest of his life travelling

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But far and away the biggest problem was the later, turncoat Rimbaud, the angel who amputated his own wings.

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Imagine, then, standing on this wind-swept height as Rimbaud did, almost out of your mind with the sheer power of your mind.

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Long abandoned by her husband, Madame Rimbaud—or Widow Rimbaud, as then she insisted on being called—is another piece of work.

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I already feel the breath of failure on my neck, aware that Rimbaud published his first immortal poem at 15.

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Arthur Rimbaud is one of many poets who looks different in his “complete works” than in his slim volumes.

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Tailhade has painted his "Vieilles Actrices" at greater length, but smiling; Rimbaud does not endanger his intensity by a chuckle.

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Rimbaud in that poem identifies himself more or less with the child and its feeling.

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Rimbaud's effects seem often to come as the beauty of certain silver crystals produced by chemical means.

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Like Chatterton, like Rimbaud, Haggart came into the full possession of his talent while still a child.

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I confess I prefer Laforgue, who at his most cryptic is never so wildly tantalising as Rimbaud.

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