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Arthur Rimbaud


Born
in Charleville, Champagne, France
October 20, 1854

Died
November 10, 1891

Genre
Poetry, Sui Generis

Influences
Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, François Villon, Jules Michelet, Le ...more


Hallucinatory work of French poet Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud strongly influenced the surrealists.

With known transgressive themes, he influenced modern literature and arts, prefiguring. He started writing at a very young age and excelled as a student but abandoned his formal education in his teenage years to run away to Paris amidst the Franco-Prussian war. During his late adolescence and early adulthood, he produced the bulk of his literary output. After assembling his last major work, Illuminations , Rimbaud completely stopped writing literature at age 20 years in 1874.

A hectic, violent romantic relationship, which lasted nearly two years at times, with fellow poet Paul Verlaine engaged Rimbaud, a libertine, restless soul. Aft ...more

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Average rating: 4.22 · 59,520 ratings · 3,328 reviews · 724 distinct works • Similar authors
Illuminations
4.32 avg rating — 13,838 ratings — published 1875 — 3 editions
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A Season in Hell and The Dr...
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4.32 avg rating — 9,628 ratings — published 1872 — 20 editions
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Complete Works
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4.40 avg rating — 9,424 ratings — published 1870
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A Season in Hell
4.07 avg rating — 6,865 ratings — published 1873 — 3 editions
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A Season in Hell & Illumina...
4.27 avg rating — 3,659 ratings — published 1873 — 100 editions
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Poésies / Une saison en enf...
4.21 avg rating — 3,027 ratings — published 1873 — 17 editions
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Poésies complètes
4.32 avg rating — 2,379 ratings — published 1872 — 89 editions
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Les Cahiers de Douai: Poésies
3.25 avg rating — 2,702 ratings — published 1872 — 39 editions
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Rimbaud: Poems
4.26 avg rating — 1,577 ratings — published 1989 — 9 editions
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Rimbaud: Complete Works, Se...
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“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
― Arthur Rimbaud
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“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
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“I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.”
― Arthur Rimbaud
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