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When did Arthur Rimbaud write A Season in Hell?

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Arthur Rimbaud Rimbaud, detail from “Un Coin de table,” oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris

Arthur Rimbaud began writing his collection of prose and poetry, A Season in Hell, in April 1873 at his family's farm in Roche, France, after separating from Paul Verlaine. Following a period of travel and a violent confrontation in Brussels, he returned to Roche to finish the work, which was published later that same year.1