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Rimbaud
Graham Robb, Picador

This biography uncovers the life of one of the world’s greatest poets, Arthur Rimbaud, hailed at one time as a ‘Messiah’ and the reinventor of poetry.  Graham Robb traces his many identities from boy poet, lover (famously of Paul Verlaine), to African explorer.

   
 
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