Word: rimbaud
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...fate of the marriage, along with the fate of Verlaine as a poet, was decided by the appearance in Paris of the weirdest wonder boy known to literature. At 17, Arthur Rimbaud was already a poet of genius. He had a face like an angel's and a satanic determination to undergo what he called "a long, immense and deliberate derangement of all the senses . . . seeking every possible experience." Rimbaud's Le Bateau ivre took Verlaine's breath away. In the cafés the "child Shakespeare" insulted every poet he met, interrupted their readings-aloud with...
...promise of The Outsider's sequel was that it would explore "my ideas about a new religion." The promise has not been kept. Instead, Wilson offers another hodgepodge of Outsiders-Rilke, Rimbaud, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jacob Boehme, Pascal...
...modification of sensibility, then the importance of art is determined by the extent of the modification. (Whether the extreme modification of a few sensibilities, is more importance than a slight modification of many supposedly inferior sensibilities is of no concern here. A debate on the comparative importance of Rimbaud and Anne Lindbergh hangs on the democracy of your taste. (Personally, I am afraid that not even politicians, much less artists, can be both democratic and honest with themselves...
...secretary. The secretary whipped out a gun, but was quickly disarmed. Count Foucou de Gines proved to be one Regis Combier, a 27-year-old sewing-machine salesman and sometime arms smuggler, and the "countess" was his wife. The secretary was a 36-year-old ex-convict named Edouard Rimbaud...
...first sight one may see little more than the sort of extravagance which, since Rimbaud, has haunted French poetry when it decides to break out of the straitjacket of French rationality. Private images seem to compete successfully with good sense. Yet the French is intoxicating to the ear −even to a merely Berlitz-trained ear. And while the English translations are often flat and sometimes incorrect, readers will find a good man in these pages, a man who wears the mask of language, not in order to hide his identity but to make plain his role in the tragedy...