NP? Rimbaud

[Doug Millison]

Graham Robb's recent biography of Rimbaud does a good job at fleshing out
this split.  The faux-beatnik bourgeois  were stunned and shocked and
scandalized by nitty-gritty Rimbaud, who eventually turned his back on the
Paris scene and fled to the colonies for a bizarre Kurtz-like finish. A
very entertaining biography, highly recommended.

gregory pierrot :
> dÈcadence in French poetry is more of the Parnassians, the
>"art for art's sake" people, who might have admired poËtes maudits,
>and Verlaine was pretty close to them (until buddy Rimbaud scorned
>them that is), but what they really were were bourgeois and nobles
>like Barbey d'Aurevilly,