Rimbaldian, a.
(rɪmˈbældɪən)
Also Rimbaudian (ræ̃ˈbəʊdɪən); ‖ Rimbaldien, Rimbaudien.
[ad. F. Rimbaldien, f. the name of Arthur Rimbaud (1854–91), French poet + -ien -ian.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Rimbaud or his poetry.
| 1924 R. Macaulay Orphan Island xxii. 296 A hundred birds unballed themselves and sang... ‘Very Rimbaudien,’ said Charles dizzily. 1952 Essays in Crit. II. 21 Her capacity for dissatisfaction..might have led to Rimbaldian adventures or Baudelairean visions. 1957 L. Varèse in Rimbaud's Illuminations p. xiv, The cardinal tenet of the Rimbaldien cult has been that Une Saison en Enfer was the nineteen-year-old boy's farewell to literature, his mea culpa. 1965 R. G. Cohn Toward Poems of Mallarmé 5 Le Sonneur indicates he [sc. Mallarmé] could have trodden further along the earthy Rimbaldian path. 1976 Listener 25 Nov. 691/3 The roared Rimbaudian lyrics of Peter Hammill. 1978 Amer. Poetry Rev. Nov./Dec. 30/1 Alcohol is the means but it is really fate at work—something a little Faustian, a little Coleridgian or Rimbaldian. |