Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud (born October 20, 1854, Charleville, France—died November 10, 1891, Marseille) was a French poet and adventurer who won renown in the Symbolist movement and markedly influenced modern poetry. Rimbaud grew up at Charleville in the Ardennes region of northeastern France. He was the second son of an army captain and a local farmer’s daughter. The father spent little time with the family and eventually abandoned the children to the sole care of their...