Dec 30, 2009
Arthur Rimbaud’s impact on the literary world stems entirely from his poetry.
Arthur Rimbaud’s meteoric career has forever earned for him a place as the brilliant enfant terrible of French verse. Since his death, he has attracted more critical attention than any French poet save Stéphane Mallarmé. A revolutionary both in his life and in his art, Rimbaud exerted a radical influence on the scope and direction of French poetry. He has been credited with introducing vers libre (free verse), which would come to...
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