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
lettersContains the French text of the poems on facing
pagesIntroduction examines Rimbaud's two very different careers
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