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Like a Rolling Stone

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Arthur Rimbaud 's poems, dazzling products of a few youthful years, had a huge impact on literature. His poetry lives on in many rock songs and in the lives of those who sung them, like Bob Dylan , Jim Morrison and Patti Smith. But would Rimbaud have thanked them? The writer and translator Jeremy Harding , who has prepared a new
English edition of Rimbaud's poems, explores the myth of the gypsy troubadour and Rimbaud's surprising attachment to the road home. Repeated from Sunday

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