Selected Poems and Letters
Author: Arthur Rimbaud
A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe’s most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief 5-year reign as the enfant terrible of French literature he produced an extraordinary body of poems that range from the exquisite to the obsene, while simultaneously living a life of dissolute excess with his lover a….Read More
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