A Season in Hell

A Season in Hell, collection of prose and poetry pieces by French Symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud, published in 1873, when Rimbaud was 19, as Une Saison en enfer.

The collection is a form of spiritual autobiography in which the author comes to a new self-awareness through an examination of his life and his career as a poet. The collection, especially the last section, called “Adieu,” is seen by some critics as Rimbaud’s farewell to poetry. He gave up writing shortly after A Season in Hell was published.