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: ...

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.

Is Rimbaud overrated?

But after years of soul searching and recently much rereading, I have come to the conclusion that Arthur Rimbaud, the original enfant terrible of western literature, the child "genius" of 19th century letters, and undoubtedly one of the most influential poets who has ever lived, is wildly overrated.