Selected Poems and Letters : Parallel Text, Penguin - Arthur Rimbaud

Selected Poems and Letters

By: Arthur Rimbaud

Paperback | 5 August 2004 | Edition Number 1

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Arthur Rimbaud was one of the wildest, most uncompromising poets of his age, although his brief literary career was over by the time he was twenty-one when he embarked on a new life as a trader in Africa. This edition brings together his extraordinary poetry and more than a hundred of his letters, most of them written after he had abandoned literature. A master of French verse forms, the young Rimbaud set out to transform his art, and language itself, by a systematic "disordering of all the senses," often with the aid of alcohol and drugs. The result is a highly innovative, modern body of work, obscene and lyrical by turns-a rigorous journey to extremes.

Jeremy Harding and John Sturrock's new translation includes Rimbaud's greatest verse, as well as his record of youthful torment,A Season in Hell (1873), and letters that unveil the man who turned his back on poetry.

  • Includes a generous selection of Rimbaud's major poetry followed by more than 100 of his letters

  • Contains the French text of the poems on facing pages

  • Introduction examines Rimbaud's two very different careers

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