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Rimbaud redefined poetry by juxtaposing unrelated images in prose poems, a form pioneered by John Milton and William Blake.
The poet Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud was one of the chief forerunners of the Surrealist movement. He was a poet-prodigy who produced all of his known work before he turned twenty-one and entirely renounced literature thereafter...
The poet Isidore-Lucien Ducasse, better known under his pseudonym of the "Comte de Lautréamont," was a crucial forerunner of, and inspiration for, the Surrealists...
