biography
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Rimbaud, (Jean Nicolas) Arthur
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pronunciation:
[rĩboh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1854–91)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Charleville, NE France. One of the most revolutionary figures in 19th-c literature, he published his first book of poems in 1870, following this with his most famous work, Le Bateau ivre (1871, The Drunken Boat). In 1871, Verlaine invited him to Paris, where they led a life of ill repute together. Before the relationship ended (1873), Rimbaud wrote Les Illuminations, a series of prose and verse poems, which show him to be a precursor of Symbolism, and which were published by Verlaine in 1876, when he believed Rimbaud to be dead. Disappointed at the cold reception given to his Une Saison en enfer (1873, A Season in Hell), he stopped writing, and spent the rest of his life wandering in Europe and the NE regions of Africa. |
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