Word: rimbaud
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...Rimbaud was the classic beautiful boy, whose fatal charm somehow carried within itself the seeds of disaster. Yet this boy, who stopped writing poetry at 21, reshaped the poetic idiom of his time, and left his imprint on the generations to come. For Rimbaud perfected, if he did not invent, the prose poem, into which he poured the visions of fiis subconscious: "I have stretched ropes from belfry to belfry, garlands from window to window; gold chains from star to star, and I'm dancing." Today, the influence of Rimbaud is visible in the works of such diverse poets...
Great Damned. The son of an army officer, Rimbaud was born in 1854 in the town of Charleville in northern France...
Verlaine abandoned his young wife and child, and for the next few years he and Rimbaud loved and fought all over northern France. England and Belgium. During this period, Rimbaud wrote his best poems, The Illuminations, which combined a child's joy in nature with the hallucinations of a youth dabbling in occult sciences and dope: naivete, depravity and delusions were fused into poems that might be the joint work of Orpheus, Freud and Hans Christian Andersen...
...Wanderer. Finally, in a monumental quarrel that turned into opera briffa, Verlaine shot Rimbaud in the wrist...
Verlaine was jailed for two years; Rimbaud, whose poetry still went unrecognized by the public, became progressively more disenchanted. He gave up poetry and threw himself into languages and science. He became a wanderer, enlisting indiscriminately in armies and circuses. He was a bricklayer in Cyprus, a stevedore in Marseille, a deserter from the Dutch army in Batavia; a trader, gunrunner, explorer and attempted slave trader in Africa. In 1891, grievously ill, he returned to France to die. Enid Starkie, a lecturer at Oxford, has devoted most of her energy to Rimbaud, and this book is a revised and expanded...