Roman arthur rimbaud biography
Arthur rimbaud a season in hell...
Rimbaud, Arthur
BORN: 1854, Charleville, France
DIED: 1891, Marseilles, France
NATIONALITY: French
GENRE: Poetry
MAJOR WORKS:
A Season in Hell (1873)
Illuminations (1886)
The Drunken Boat (1920)
Overview
Arthur Rimbaud is considered one of the most influential poets in the history of French letters.
Roman arthur rimbaud biography
Although his writing career was brief and his output small, Rimbaud's development of the prose poem and innovative use of the unconscious mind as a source of literary inspiration influenced the symbolist movement and anticipated the
freedom of form characteristic of much contemporary poetry.
Works in Biographical and Historical Context
Childhood with an Absent Father and Authoritarian Mother Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud was born in Charleville in northeastern France on October 20, 1854, the second son of an army captain, Frédéric Rimbaud, and Marie-Cathérine-Vitalie Rimbaud.
Rim-baud's father was absent during most of his childhood. Rimbaud's difficult relatio