Word: rimbaud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...described in a 1957 novel by Italy's Elsa Morante, the authoress wife of Author Alberto Moravia, Arturo was a brilliant youth whose imagination flashed all the colors of a Rimbaud. As depicted in Damiano Damiani's film version of the book, the boy seems more like the Tom Sawyer of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Nevertheless, his story is touching, and it is interpreted by all three principals with aplomb and sensibility...
...available at the friendly neighborhood bookstore, right there beside Youngblood Haivke and The New English Bible. The terrible Mary McCarthy has spoken of Burroughs with respect, and the Saturday Review's John Ciardi has praised his "profoundly meaningful" search for "values." British Writer Kenneth Allsop called him "Rimbaud in a raincoat." The grey eminence himself has even appeared at that squarest of social gatherings, a writers' conference...
...writing, before he was 30, eight throbbing novels (the most notable, The City and the Pillar, was the warmly sympathetic apologia of a tennis player who liked tennis players much better than he liked playing tennis), and then chucked it all to write for television. This dramatic renunciation-Rimbaud would never have gone into gunrunning if there had been television to write for-had its purgative effect, and Vidal soon became the author of three successful Broadway farces (Visit to a Small Planet, The Best Man, Romulus...
Gilles loved music, Rimbaud and Verlaine. He suffered from occasional bleeding of the palms, probably caused by the turpentine he used while at work. It is said that he drank at least three liters of wine after dinner. But the wine never dimmed his eye or dulled his fantasies. He would return from an afternoon of painting and quietly announce. "I have been talking to the butterflies." Or he would report, on arising in the morning, "I spent the whole night with the Devil." He never lost his grip on reality, but it was obvious that he had access...
...Donne-and-Yeats-citing and always identifiable poets...." He has accused our poets of imitation, and of course he's absolutely right. One only wonders why he concluded his list at Donne and Yeats. In the last year alone we have published imitations of Shaw, Shakespeare, Pope, Faulkner, Rimbaud, Keats, D. H. Lawrence Lorca, , William Carls Williams, Goldsmith, Katherine Mansfield, Hemingway, Lowell, Wilde, and Stevens, to mention only a few. Many of these authors appear in a single work; a few of them appear in almost every work. But how, may I ask, is this to be distinguished...