Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet born in Charleville, Ardennes. As part of the decadent movement, he influenced modern literature and arts, inspired various musicians, and prefigured surrealism. All of his poetry was written as a teenager; he gave up creative writing completely before he turned 20. His genius, its flowering, explosion and sudden extinction, still astonishes.
Rimbaud was known to have been a libertine and a restless soul. He traveled extensively on three continents b...
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