When Did Rimbaud Stop Writing?

During his late adolescence and early adulthood he produced the bulk of his literary output, then completely stopped writing literature at age 20, after assembling his last major work, Illuminations.

Why did Rimbaud stop writing?

If Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) is French teenagers' perennial favourite, it's because during the course of his short life and even shorter literary career — he stopped writing poetry by the age of 21 and died at the age of 37 — he embodied some of the fundamental urges that we all have known, at one time or another: ...

What happened to Rimbaud?

Sickness and death (1891)

In February 1891, in Aden, Rimbaud developed what he initially thought was arthritis in his right knee. ... He received the last rites from a priest before dying on 10 November 1891, at the age of 37. The remains were sent across France to his home town and he was buried in Charleville-Mézières.

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