Arthur Rimbaud's "A Season in Hell" is a prose poem loosely divided
into nine parts. In one part of the poem the poet portrays quite
transparently his own relationship with French symbolist poet Paul
Verlaine. The two had a brief alcohol and drug fueled affair which
finally came to end when Verlaine shot Rimbaud in the wrist in a
drunken rage. "A Season in Hell," which has been referred to as a
pioneering example of modern symbolism, is included in this
collection along with "The Drunken Boat," a fragmented first-person
narrative which vividly describes the drifting and sinking of a
boat lost at sea. It is probably the best known work from the
representative selection of early poems by the writer presented
here in this volume. Also included in this edition is a selection
of poems from Rimbaud's masterpiece "Illuminations." What is most
remarkable about Rimbaud's poetry is that it was produced almost
entirely between the ages of seventeen and twenty, when Rimbaud
would abruptly give up writing entirely in favor of a more steady
working life. His writing he contended was a product of his
reckless lifestyle to which he was resolved to abandon.
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