A Season in Hell, the Drunken Boat, and Illuminations
Rimbaud, Arthur / Watson, James Sibley / Abel, Lionel
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 inclu...