Word: rimbaud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ARTHUR RIMBAUD-Enid Starkie-Norton...
Between 15 and 19, Arthur Rimbaud wrote poetry whose slashing irony and pure music still influence poets. At 19 he wrote Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell), an obscure, agonized hodgepodge in which Rimbaud addicts* trace the wrestlings of his André Gide-like puritanism with his André Gide-like passions. But from then until he died, at 37, in a Marseille hospital, Arthur Rimbaud never wrote again. This amazing break with his genius, his lone-wolf prowlings through the lower depths of Europe, his gunrunning in Africa and Asia form a vague, provoking literary legend...
...voyage, preferring to go to bed early and get up at dawn, read Conrad, study Malaya, brood upon the remarkable changes since his first trip East 27 years before, and talk with the captain about the lore of the lands they passed. Passing Aden he thought of Rimbaud's tragic fate, and of how strange it was that the Frenchman should be the favorite poet of "a man so immaculate in thought, word and deed as Mr. Anthony Eden." Passing Ethiopia he thought of Conrad, who wrote a chapter of Almayer's Folly in a steamer named Adowa...
...autobiography of a Chinese intellectual, unsensational, indigenous. THE METHOD OF FREEDOM-Walter Lippmann-Macmillan ($1.50). Lectures delivered at Harvard last month by a noted public-pulse-finder. DREAM AND ACTION-Leonard Bacon- Harper ($2). Narrative poem based on the life of the late great Poet-to-end-Poets Arthur Rimbaud, with a translation of the famed Bateau Ivre. THE PROVINCIAL LADY IN AMERICA- E. M. Delafield-Harper ($2). Author Delafield's famed Provincial Lady visits the U. S., keeps her ironic eyes open. To those not already bored by her she will seem refreshingly funny. TIN SOLDIERS-Robert Wohlforth...