Rimbaud

[ ram-boh; French ran-boh ]

noun

1. (Jean Ni·co·las) Ar·thur [zhah, n, nee-kaw-, lah, , a, r, -, tyr], 1854–91, French poet.

Rimbaud

/ rɛ̃bo /

noun

1. RimbaudArthur18541891MFrenchWRITING: 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

Example Sentences

“I wasn’t remotely in it anymore,” Titus said, adding that he was reading Jean Genet and Arthur Rimbaud and listening to the Velvet Underground’s Lou Reed and John Cale.

From New York Times

Hearing Patti Smith refer on the album “Horses” to Arthur Rimbaud, she found and became enraptured by the French poet’s work — and the lore surrounding his life.

From New York Times

Music fans know the posters are advertising a new band; literature snobs know the quote is from Rimbaud; vigilantes know it’s all about recruiting young people to satanism.

From Washington Post

In other works, Johnson appears alongside the poet Arthur Rimbaud or the singer David Bowie.

From New York Times

But, played by dozens of Ukrainian musicians on a mild evening in Damrosch Park, the score took on an air of calm but implacable defiance, what Rimbaud once called “burning patience.”

From New York Times