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A Season in Hell

Arthur Rimbaud

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1873
Originally in
Originally in French
Pages
Pages 80

A young poet drags himself through visions of his own damnation and a ruined love, mocks his own genius without mercy, then renounces poetry itself and vows to grip the real world with both hands.

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A Season in Hell, Arthur Rimbaud

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