the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Arthur Rimbaud : [unknown]

'He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell      Print: Book

Arthur Rimbaud : [poems]

[her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had a taste for Baudelaire through Swinburne's translations of the author of "Les Fleurs du mal", she found her governess' favorites even more to her liking'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell      Print: Book

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