Rosanna Warren on Arthur Rimbaud

Poet Rosanna Warren, who visits the Writers Institute on Tuesday, April 12, talks about Rimbaud's revolutionary impact on the art of poetry in The Atlantic, October 21, 2008:

"[H]e radically reinvented the idea of love, even as he pioneered two major experimental forms of poetry, the prose poem and free verse (vers libre).

By the time he was nineteen, this astonishing adolescent had mastered and then assaulted the classical beauty of the Alexandrine line—the central building block of French verse—and he had broken through into realms of erotic and psychic experience for which his culture scarcely had no language. So he invented one." More.