However, it is a well and deliberately edited and revised text. They differ markedly in tone and narrative comprehensibility. The prose poem is loosely divided into nine parts, of varying length. He finished the work in a farmhouse in Roche, Ardennes. The poem was by Rimbaud himself dated April through August 1873, but these are dates of completion. According to biographer Graham Robb, this began "as an attempt to explain why some of his poems are so hard to understand, especially when sober". Īccording to some sources, Rimbaud's first stay in London in September 1872 converted him from an imbiber of absinthe to a smoker of opium, and drinker of gin and beer. In anger, Rimbaud burned his manuscripts and likely never wrote poetry again. However, when his reputation was marred because of his actions with Verlaine, he received negative reviews and was snubbed by Parisian art and literary circles. After their parting, Rimbaud returned home to complete the work and published A Season in Hell. After subsequent threats of violence, Verlaine was arrested and incarcerated to two years hard labour.
When Rimbaud announced he planned to leave while they were staying in Brussels in July 1873, Verlaine fired two shots from his revolver, wounding Rimbaud once. Verlaine had bouts of suicidal behavior and drunkenness. They had begun a complicated relationship in spring 1872, and they quarreled frequently. : p.1 In the following weeks, Rimbaud traveled with poet Paul Verlaine through Belgium and to London again. According to Bertrand Mathieu, Rimbaud wrote the work in a dilapidated barn. Rimbaud began writing the poem in April 1873 during a visit to his family's farm in Roche, near Charleville on the French-Belgian border. The book had a considerable influence on later artists and poets, including the Surrealists. It is the only work that was published by Rimbaud himself. Part 3.Ī Season in Hell ( French: Une Saison en Enfer) is an extended poem in prose written and published in 1873 by French writer Arthur Rimbaud.
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