Arthur Rimbaud

Rimbaud, the rebel, the blasphemer, the poet who would become famous for his “long, involved, and logical derangement of all the senses,” committed his most representative crime. Its inception remains indelibly marked on the library’s register for that day:

Verlaine leaves wife, flees with Rimbaud. Reconciles with wife, leaves wife again, moves to London with Rimbaud. Melodrama