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Rimbaud

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Rim·baud  (rm-b, r-), Jean Nicholas Arthur 1854-1891.
French poet whose hallucinatory work had a strong influence on the surrealists.

Rimbaud (French) [rɛ̃bo]
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(Biographies / Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891) M, French, WRITING: poet) Arthur (artyr). 1854-91, French poet, whose work, culminating in the prose poetry of Illuminations (published 1884), greatly influenced the symbolists. A Season in Hell (1873) draws on his tempestuous homosexual affair with Verlaine, after which he abandoned writing (aged about 20) and spent the rest of his life travelling
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Noun1.Rimbaud - French poet whose work influenced the surrealists (1854-1891)


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The title is from a phrase by the French poet Arthur Rimbaud to describe his method of writing and sees the dancers switching between quiet contemplation to sudden rushes of movement.
Rimerlain: French poets Arthur Rimbaud and the Paul Verlaine had a short-lived, torrid romance involving buckets of booze, drugs, and ultimately, bullets.
When he comes home, he opens up an Arthur Rimbaud book to read.
 
 
 
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