Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)

Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) was a French Decadent poet and a notorious libertine.

For the GRE Literature exam, it's enough to know that:

-He was a prodigy: stopped writing poetry at 21.
-Victor Hugo famously called him "an infant Shakespeare."

His work is unlikely to appear on the exam, but a biographical question might.