Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) was a French poet who, in a career lasting barely five years, revolutionized the possibilities of poetic language. Born in Charleville in northeastern France to a strict mother and an absent military father, he was a prodigy who began writing brilliant verse at fifteen and had produced his entire body of poetry by twenty-one. His tumultuous relationship with the older poet Paul Verlaine—which ended with Verlaine shooting him—became one of the legendary scandals of literary history. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by A Season in Hell.