'The poet makes himself a seer by a long, prodigious, and rational disordering of all the senses...' Rimbaud was sixteen when he made this famous declaration. By 1886, then thirty-two and an explorer, trader and slave-trader on the Red Sea, he had absolutely no interest in the fate or success of the poetry infused with mysticism, alchemy and magic that he had written in his teens. That same year, in Paris, "Les Illuminations" was being published as the work of 'the late' Arthur Rimbaud, first in a Symbolist periodical and then in book form, with an Introduction by his former lover, Verlaine. Seldom has a writer's vision of changing the world through words failed so spectacularly as did Rimbaud's. That failure turned him into an incomparable tragic poet: not only 'a wild undisciplined genius, a mystic philosopher and thinker, an inspired poet' but also, according to Enid Starkie, 'one of the most finished artists ...a supreme master of prosody and style'. This 'Penguin Classic' reproduces the text of "The Pleiade edition", 1954, with selected letters and prose translations that have been highly acclaimed.
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Has the French, at least.,
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This review is from: Collected Poems (French Edition) (Mass Market Paperback)
I bought this volume for only two reasons, that it had the french with unobstrusive footnoted translations; and that it was cheaper than the fowlie.This has turned out to be quite a mistake. I had thought that "Collected Poems" meant that every known poem would be included. Well, this volume doesn't. I couldn't find avertissment (ces ecritures ci sont des un toute jeune homme...) anywhere in it, and wondered if it was by some other French author. I later found it in the Fowlie edition. If you have a good deal of French, this may not be too bad an introductory edition, but if you had any French, you'd want a complete edition. Don't buy this book.
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Perfectly Viable (an erudite translation),
By Robert Magus "R. T. M." (Bklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Collected Poems (French Edition) (Mass Market Paperback)
I neither care to fret with regard to missing lines of certain poems within, but due to the uncalled for hue and cry concerning this transcribed text I must take great offense. This translation is six-fold more erudite than Wyatt Mason's "Rimbaud: Complete." This happens to be one of Peguins best translations as opposed to its hideous Goethe's works.
The exquisite locution more than compensates for the parts from which the translator exempted inclusion. I would rather see an excellent translation (amended to convey sophistry in English)than a more accurate but slovenly done rendition of detriment by inordinate dedication to accuracy.
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Put simply, I have read most other translations of Rimbaud. In my opinion, Oliver Bernard and Paul Schmidt are the best. Best of luck.
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