Question

This poet described a boy’s sisters tending to his “forehead itching red torments” in his poem (20[1])“The Lice Searchers.” This poet described one of the title things as a “black velvety jacket (20[1])of brilliant flies” in a poem (20[1])that a frequent collaborator published in an anthology of “Accursed Poets.” This poet listed (read slowly) “A black, (20[4])E white, (20[7])I red, (20[1])U green, O blue” in his (20[1])sonnet “Vowels.” The narrator of a poem by this author “was indifferent to all (*) crews” and “no longer felt [itself] guided (10[1])by haulers.” This poet imagined the (10[1])title (10[1])vehicle (0[1])“going down (0[1])impassive rivers” in an 1871 poem he wrote aged 16, which was published by his lover (10[4])Paul Verlaine. For 10 points, name this French poet of “The (10[2])Drunken (10[1])Boat” and “A Season in (10[2]0[11])Hell.” ■END■

ANSWER: Arthur Rimbaud (“ram-BOH”) [or Jean Arthur Nicolas Rimbaud]
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