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'''Arthur Rimbaud''' ([[October 20]], [[1854]] - [[November 10]], [[1891]]) was a [[France|French]] poet.

Arthur Rimbaud was born into poverty in [[Charleville]], France in 1854. The young Rimbaud was a restless but gifted student. By the age of thirteen or fourteen, he had won many prizes in literature and writing; he also composed poems and dialogues in Latin. HeIn 1870, he met Professor Georges Izambard, who became a mentor for the young poet.

Rimbaud ran away from home in [[1870]], and eventually arrived in [[Paris]], where he was forced to live on the streets. Immersed in the Parisian street-life Rimbaud began to write poetry, inspired partly by [[Charles Baudelaire]].

Rimbaud met the poet [[Paul Verlaine]] in [[1871]], and moved into his house where the pair embarked on a stormy relationship. They moved to [[London]] in [[1872]] after Verlaine left his wife. After a particularly violent argument in [[Brussels]], Verlaine shot Rimbaud in the wrist and was consequently sent to jail for 18 months.

Rimbaud soon finished his collection of poetry, ''Une Saison en Enfer'' (A Season in Hell), a work regarded as being one of the first pieces of [[free verse]]. Soon after, he gave up writing and travelled through Europe before eventually becoming a gun-runner and slave-trader in Africa. It is believed Rimbaud contracted [[syphilis]] while in Africa, and returned to France in 1891 after developing a tumor in the leg. He died in [[Marseilles]] lateron thatOctober year10, 1891.

His life in Paris was dramatised in a film starring [[Leonardo DiCaprio]] called ''Total Eclipse'' ([[1995]]).