Rimbaud, Jean Nicolas Arthur
(1854–1891)
Rimbaud, Jean Nicolas ArthurRimbaud, Jean Nicolas ArthurJean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (B * CHARLEVILLE, 1854 – D † MARSEILLE, 1891) Precocious enfant terrible of French poetry, raised strictly by his mother, his father having deserted the family when Rimbaud was six. One of his teachers suggested that he aspire to the Parnassians, to whom he sent early poems that, however, were not accepted by them. The Franco / Prussian War of 1870 / 71 occasioned his running away several times, trying to join…