Arthur Rimbaud wrote a few pieces that set french poetry aghast
around 1873. He'd taken to wandering Europe in lieu of university.
His teachers hated him. There was a sort of subtle but perverse
defiance to his work. He would create new words to describe the
world around him, and produced pages of rhyming latin verse in his
mathematics class while taking notes. For a time he produced latin
homework for his fellow students and appeared, for a time, to raise
the general standard. He criticized every popular structural form
and his writings provided a new basis for creative literature in
Europe. At the age of 21 Rimbaud renounced writing to explore
distant countries. In 12 years he passed through almost 28
countries and amassed a small fortune in gold before complications
from a gangrenous leg injury led to his untimely death. He became
the first European to travel through northern Ethiopia. Confronted
in North Africa by an employer, who told him his adolescent prose
was not only alive in Europe but launching a career of its own, is
quoted as one histrionic outburst. His former employer, Alfred
Barley, wrote: Rimbaud] would never allow me to mention his former
literary works. Sometimes I asked him why he didn't take it up
again. All I ever got were the usual replies: "Absurd, ridiculous,
disgusting, etc."
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