Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world for me. People come up to me in dining rooms. Of course, I think it's a little bit presumptuous to come across a dining room floor with a menu card and ask me to autograph it, but the people do it kindly." The ancient poet laureate of the New Frontier feels at home with the Kennedy Administration. "But I'm not a liberal...
Seventy-one years ago, a poet was dying of gangrene in a Marseille hospital: one of his legs was amputated, the other might have to go. "Have yourself chopped up, torn to bits, shredded," he wrote to his sister, "but don't let them amputate you ... To have to perform acrobatic stunts all day long for the mere semblance of existing!" Soon after, Arthur Rimbaud was dead; he had just turned...
...born rebel, and by the time he was 13, he was exasperated alike by the provincial dreariness of Charleville and the tyranny of his mother. In a heavily underscored entry in his diary, he formulated his doctrine: the poet should be a revolutionary and antiChristian, a seer and a magician, "the great sufferer, the great criminal, the great damned-the supreme savant." This was to be achieved by "the systematic upheaval of all the senses." At 16, he fled to Paris...
...angelic-looking, penniless, tattered, and an instant success in Paris' literary cafes. The aging Victor Hugo hailed him as "Shakespeare enfant" another poet called him "Satan amidst the doctors." Paul Verlaine, then 27 and already an established poet, fell helplessly in love with...
...found; as writing, it is often awkward and repetitious. But the story alone carries the book. Rimbaud embodied in his short life some of the great prototypes: the fallen angel, the artist-outlaw, the prodigal son. He continues to be worshiped by religious writers as a saint, by revolutionary poets as a supreme rebel. But he was mostly a poet and a suffering human being, and to the latter, at least, Miss Starkie's book does ample justice...