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ARSE POETICA.(life of poet Arthur Rimbaud)

The New Yorker

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What poet's life lends itself better to myth than Arthur Rimbaud's? By the age of sixteen, he had written one of the most celebrated poems in French literature. Soon he was shocking bohemian Paris, living on absinthe and hashish and openly having an affair with Paul Verlaine. He wrote his masterpiece, "Une Saison en Enfer" ("A Season in Hell"), in a few months' fevered productivity but supposedly cast almost all the printed copies into the flames. (When the allegedly burned books were discovered in the publisher's archives a decade after Rimbaud's death, the poet's literary executor asked that they be destroyed in order to "give the appearance of truth" to the legend.) In ...

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