In the poem "Bad Blood" from an 1873 collection, Rimbaud wrote: "My daytime is done; I am leaving Europe. The air of the sea will burn my lungs; lost climates will turn my skin to leather." The ...

Born in northern France in 1854, Rimbaud would come to be known as the enfant terrible (terrible child) of the French poet world. Rimbaud excelled in literature from a young age and was a star ...

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