Selected Poems and Letters
Parallel Text Edition with Plain Prose Translations of EachPoem
$36.64
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
5 August 2004
Summary
An essential introduction to one of the most inventive and provocative poets.
A phenomenally precocious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe’s most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief five-year reign as the enfant terrible of French literature, he produced an extraordinary body of poems that range from the exquisite to the obscene, while simultaneously living a life of dissolute excess with his lover and fellow poet, Verlaine. At the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140448023 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140448020 |
| Author: | Arthur Rimbaud, Jeremy Harding, John Sturrock |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 5 August 2004 |
| Weight: | 374g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 28mm |
| Series: | Parallel Text, Penguin |
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About The Author
Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) is one of France’s most controversial and influential poets. His works include A Season in Hell and Illuminations.
Jeremy Harding is Senior Editor at the London Review of Books, a translator, and journalist. He is currently working on a book about being adopted.
John Sturrock is Consulting Editor for the London Review of Books, a literary critic, travel writer, and translator. His translations include novels by Stendhal and Hugo, and one volume of the new Proust translation- Sodom and Gomorrah.
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