Arthur Rimbaud
French poet, a precursor of Symbolism and modernist poetry, best known for works such as A Season in Hell and Illuminations; wrote most of his influential poetry in his teens and early twenties before abandoning literature to travel and work in Africa.
Books
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1. Poésies Complètes
A compact, electrifying corpus of late-19th-century verse that traces the rapid, incandescent development of a young visionary who upended poetic language and form; its short, intense lyrics and longer, hallucinatory pieces mix vivid, often synesthetic imagery with rhythmic daring to explore rebellion, desire, exile, urban disquiet, and ecstatic encounters with nature and the self. The poems move from adolescent bravado to metaphysical anguish, experimenting with free verse, striking metaphors, and musical cadences that destabilize ordinary perception and celebrate the poet as seer and outsider. Together they map a brilliant but brief creative arc whose radical language and emotional force became a touchstone for modern and symbolist poetry.
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