Arthur Rimbaud
Noun
Meaning
French poet whose work influenced the surrealists (1854-1891)
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Examples
I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the senses. What they forget was that he also advocated, sternly and austerely, that one must be able to go through all that - and then articulate it.
John Milton and even Arthur Rimbaud received their first poetic educations in Latin.
Authors such as Arthur Rimbaud and Max Beerbohm wrote Latin verse, but these texts were either school exercises or occasional pieces.
The most significant French writers to come after him were generous with tributes; four years after his death, Arthur Rimbaud praised him in a letter as 'the king of poets, a true God'.
Later that evening, many of my guests drew a flattering parallel between yourself and Arthur Rimbaud.