Rimbaud

American  

[ram-boh, ran-boh] / ræmˈboʊ, rɛ̃ˈboʊ /

noun

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

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Rimbaud British  

/ 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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Example Sentences

Yeats; in another he salutes Allen Ginsberg and other Beat poets; in a third he devotes the entirety of the piece to Arthur Rimbaud.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

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

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025

And some of it — such as the Rimbaud photographs, which are smaller than later prints because the indigent artist could not afford to buy larger paper — is especially rare.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022

He would read Rimbaud aloud with a very bad accent, marveling the while at his fluid speech.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck