Rimbaud.(Arthur Rimbaud)(Brief article)

Yeats once said that the writer must decide between the life or the work, but Arthur Rimbaud--teen-age prodigy, archetypal rebel, African adventurer--chose both. Although White notes that "a biographer of Rimbaud could fill his pages with nothing but his ceaseless comings and goings," his own account is slim and skillfully blends action and analysis. White declares his personal infatuation--even speculating that an affair with a teacher as "an unhappy gay adolescent" ...