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亞瑟・Rimbaud, b. 1854 年10月20 日, 法國象徵主義的早熟的男孩詩人, 寫了一些19 世紀的最卓越的詩歌和散文。他的高度暗示, 微妙的工作運用了資源下意識, 並且它的形式相應地是柔軟和新穎。Rimbaud 被辨認了作為自由詩歌的創作者的當中一個由於節奏性實驗在他的散文詩 照明 (1886 年; Eng. trans., 1932) 。 元音(1871 的他的 Sonnet 年; Eng. trans., 1966), 各個元音被分配顏色, 被幫助通俗化聯覺(一感覺經驗的描述根據另), 設備由符號學家廣泛利用。幻覺的圖像在 酒醉小船 (1871 年; Eng. trans., 1952) 和Rimbaud 的敦促, 在 從觀看者的信件 (1871 年; Eng. trans., 1966), 詩人成為觀看者由接受感覺的完全精神錯亂並且顯露Rimbaud 作為超現實主義前體。在他自己的宣言以後, Rimbaud 居住他描述在一個季節在地獄的無節制地 強烈, 被拷打的存在 (1873 年; Eng. trans., 1932) 。

來象徵被疏遠的天才為法國信件的詩人是離開他的家庭軍隊上尉的兒子當他的兒子六歲。(Rimbaud 珍惜這個缺席父親的圖像作為付諸行動的人, 強有力的力量-- 當他的母親代表的克制和弱點。) 他是一名精采學生在一所省學校在Charleville, 一個鎮在東北法國, 直到佛朗哥普魯士人的戰爭(1870 的7月) 爆發, 當男孩被轉動叛亂和出逃了他的家。

一年vagabondage 幾乎隨後了而來。他寄發了一些他的詩到保□・Verlaine, 並且在1871 更老的詩人邀請了他到巴黎。巴黎人知識界rejected 他作為一傲慢和粗野醉酒, 但他和Verlaine 成為了戀人。他們困難的關係分散地繼續了經過二年和是形成一個季節核心在地獄的源泉的 偉大的精神disillusionment。(它在在Rimbaud 寫”精神狩獵的這時間期間,” 詩, Verlaine 叫他的傑作。原稿消失了在對的混亂旅行期間。) 在事理結束了之後, Rimbaud 摒棄了他的文字。他未獲得年齡的20 。在其它劇烈的變革他成為了一貿易商和gunrunner 在非洲。十八年後, 在1891 年11月10 日, 他死了在馬賽跟隨他的癌右腿的截肢術。
Arthur Rimbaud, b. Oct. 20, 1854, the precocious boy-poet of French symbolism, wrote some of the most remarkable poetry and prose of the 19th century. His highly suggestive, subtle work drew on subconscious sources, and its form was correspondingly supple and novel. Rimbaud has been identified as one of the creators of free verse because of the rhythmic experiments in his prose poems Illuminations (1886; Eng. trans., 1932). His Sonnet of the Vowels (1871; Eng. trans., 1966), in which each vowel is assigned a color, helped popularize synesthesia (the description of one sense experience in terms of another), a device widely exploited by the symbolists. The hallucinatory images in The Drunken Boat (1871; Eng. trans., 1952) and Rimbaud’s urging, in Letter from the Seer (1871; Eng. trans., 1966), that poets become seers by undergoing a complete derangement of the senses also reveal Rimbaud as a precursor of surrealism. Following his own dictum, Rimbaud lived an inordinately intense, tortured existence that he described in A Season in Hell (1873; Eng. trans., 1932).

The poet who came to symbolize alienated genius for French letters was the son of an army captain who deserted his family when his son was six years old. (Rimbaud cherished an image of this absent father as a man of action, a powerful force--while his mother represented restraint and weakness.) He was a brilliant student at a provincial school in Charleville, a town in northeastern France, until the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war (July 1870), when the boy turned rebel and fled his home.

Almost a year of vagabondage followed. He had sent some of his poems to Paul Verlaine, and in 1871 the older poet invited him to Paris. The Parisian literati rejected him as an arrogant and boorish drunk, but he and Verlaine became lovers. Their difficult relationship continued sporadically over two years and was a source of the great spiritual disillusionment that formed the core of A Season in Hell. (It was during this time that Rimbaud wrote ”The Spiritual Hunt,” a poem that Verlaine called his masterpiece. The manuscript vanished during the pair’s chaotic travels.) Soon after the affair ended, Rimbaud abandoned his writing. He had not yet attained the age of 20. In another dramatic transformation he became a trader and gunrunner in Africa. Eighteen years later, on Nov. 10, 1891, he died in Marseille following the amputation of his cancerous right leg.

Alfred Engstrom

Bibliography: Fowlie, Wallace, Rimbaud (1966) and, as trans., Complete Works with Selected Letters, by Arthur Rimbaud (1966); Frohock, Wilbur M., Rimbaud’s Poetic Practice (1963); Houston, J. P., The Design of Rimbaud’s Poetry (1963); Petitfils, P., Rimbaud (1988); St. Aubyn, Frederic Chase, Arthur Rimbaud, rev. ed. (1984); Starkie, Enid, Arthur Rimbaud, 3d ed. (1961; repr. 1978).