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Illuminations - Prose poems (Paperback, Rev)
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Illuminations - Prose poems (Paperback, Rev)
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The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud
(1854-1891), have acquired enormous prestige among readers
everywhere and have been a revolutionary influence on poetry in the
twentieth century. They are offered here both in their original
texts and in superb English translations by Louise Varese. Mrs.
Varese first published her versions of Rimbaud's Illuminations in
1946. Since then she has revised her work and has included two
poems which in the interim have been reclassified as part of
Illuminations. This edition also contains two other series of prose
poems, which include two poems only recently discovered in France,
together with an introduction in which Miss Varese discusses the
complicated ins and outs of Rimbaldien scholarship and the special
qualities of Rimbaud's writing. Rimbaud was indeed the most
astonishing of French geniuses. Fired in childhood with an ambition
to write, he gave up poetry before he was twenty-one. Yet he had
already produced some of the finest examples of French verse. He is
best known for A Season in Hell, but his other prose poems are no
less remarkable. While he was working on them he spoke of his
interest in hallucinations--"des vertiges, des silences, des
nuits." These perceptions were caught by the poet in a beam of
pellucid, and strangely active language which still lights up--now
here, now there--unexplored aspects of experience and thought.
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