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Arthur Rimbaud

The French poet Rimbaud had a great influence on the symbolists and subsequent modern poets. A defiant and precocious youth, Rimbaud at sixteen sent some poems to Verlaine, who liked his work and

Sensation

by Arthur Rimbaud (1854–91)

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On summer evenings blue, pricked by the wheat

On rustic paths the thin grass I shall tread,

And feel its freshness underneath my feet,

And, dreaming, let the wind bathe my bare head.

I shall not speak, nor think, but, walking slow

Through Nature, I shall rove with Love my guide,

As gypsies wander, where, they do not know,

Happy as one walks by a woman's side.

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Who thought William Dean Howells, whose book review had brought him to national fame, had "done [. . .] irrevocable harm in the dictum he laid down regarding my dialect verse"?

Answer

Paul Laurence Dunbar felt Howells' review of Majors and Minors had limited his audience's interest in his work to popularize the use of dialect in poetry.

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