Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud

Illuminations

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Illuminations

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Illuminations

by Arthur Rimbaud

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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 Varèse. Mrs. Varèse 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 Varèse 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.
Book Details
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN:
9780811201841
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
228
Authors:
Arthur Rimbaud
Published Date:
1957-01-17
Language:
English
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About Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) wrote all of his poetry before he was twenty-one and then stopped. In roughly five years he produced Une saison en enfer and the prose poems of Illuminations. He was born at Charleville in north-eastern France. Having abandoned literature entirely, he spent his last years trading in Aden and Abyssinia; Illuminations was published in 1886 by Paul Verlaine while Rimbaud was in Africa, and he had no hand in it. He returned to France in 1891 with a tumour in his knee, had the leg amputated, and died in a Marseille hospital at thirty-seven. He is buried at Charleville.

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