Rimbaud - Complete Works, Selected Letters (English, French, Hardcover, Revised)

The "enfant terrible" of French letters, Jean-Nicholas-Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) was a defiant and precocious youth who wrote some of the most remarkable prose and poetry of the nineteenth century, all before leaving the world of verse by the age of twenty-one. More than a century after his death, the young rebel-poet continues to appeal to modern readers as much for his turbulent life as for his poetry; his stormy affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine and his nomadic adventures in eastern Africa are as iconic as his hallucinatory poems and symbolist prose.
The first translation of the poet's complete works when it was published in 1966, "Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters" introduced a new generation of Americans to the alienated genius--among them the Doors's lead singer Jim Morrison, who wrote to translator Wallace Fowlie to thank him for rendering the poems accessible to those who "don't read French that easily." Forty years later, the book remains the only side-by-side bilingual edition of Rimbaud's complete poetic works.
Thoroughly revising Fowlie's edition, Seth Whidden has made changes on virtually every page, correcting errors, reordering poems, adding previously omitted versions of poems and some letters, and updating the text to reflect current scholarship; left in place are Fowlie's literal and respectful translations of Rimbaud's complex and nontraditional verse. Whidden also provides a foreword that considers the heritage of Fowlie's edition and adds a bibliography that acknowledges relevant books that have appeared since the original publication. On its fortieth anniversary, "Rimbaud" remains the most authoritative--and now, completely up-to-date--edition ofthe young master's entire poetic ouvre.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2005
First published:	November 2005
Authors:	Jean-Nicholas-Arthur Rimbaud
Translators:	Wallace Fowlie
Revised by:	Seth Whidden
Introduction by:	Wallace Fowlie
Foreword by:	Seth Whidden
Dimensions:	236 x 162 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	496
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-71976-4
Languages:	English • French
Subtitles:	French
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-226-71976-6
Barcode:	9780226719764

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