Rimbaud

[ram-boh, ran-boh]

noun

1. (Jean Nicolas) Arthur 1854–91, French poet.

Rimbaud

/ rɛ̃bo /

noun

1. 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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She was obsessed with the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, and aged 17, it was a "seamless transition" to Bob Dylan.

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She forms a musical partnership with Lenny Kaye, and begins performing her poetry, with the 19th century French poet Arthur Rimbaud as her spiritual inspiration.

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It all started with a portrait of the poet Arthur Rimbaud, drawn in 1872 by his fellow writer and companion Paul Verlaine.

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“I wasn’t remotely in it anymore,” Titus said, adding that he was reading Jean Genet and Arthur Rimbaud and listening to the Velvet Underground’s Lou Reed and John Cale.

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Hearing Patti Smith refer on the album “Horses” to Arthur Rimbaud, she found and became enraptured by the French poet’s work — and the lore surrounding his life.

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