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

Starting in the 1950s, gay poet Allen Ginsberg and his fellow queer Beat writers drew inspiration from queer writers of the past, such as French poet Arthur Rimbaud, to produce now seminal works of American literature, including Ginsberg’s “Howl” and Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.”

From Los Angeles Times

"I discovered them through their live albums. Sometimes we meet people who help us to grow up, like Artur Rimbaud, a poet, or Antonin Artaud, who was also a poet, and I've been very inspired by these people."

From BBC

According to critics, “The Labyrinth of Inhumanity” is the first authentically African novel; too good to have been written by an African; primitive and crude; a masterpiece by a “Negro Rimbaud”; “not Negro enough”; and of course, a plagiarism of Western literature.

From Los Angeles Times

“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