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Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) was a French poet who is known for his contributions to the Symbolist movement. Born in the small town of Charleville-Mézières, Rimbaud wrote the majority of his literary works during a five-year period between late-adolescence and early adulthood, including his major collections Une Saison en Enfer (1873) and Les Illuminations (1886). Both titles were translated into English by Bertrand Mathieu and published by BOA Editions in 1973.

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The Drunken Boat: Selected Writings Jul 26, 2022

by Arthur Rimbaud, Mark Polizzotti

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A new translation of the best and most provocative work by France's infamous rebel poet.

Poet, prodigy, precursor, punk: the short, precocious, uncompromisingly rebellious career of the poet Arthur Rimbaud is one of the legends of modern literature. By the time he was twenty, Rimbaud had written a series of poems that are not only masterpieces in themselves but that forever transformed the idea of what poetry is. Without him, surrealism is inconceivable, and his influence is palpable in artists as diverse as Henry Miller, John Ashbery, Bob Dylan, and Patti Smith. In this essential volume, renowned translator Mark Polizzotti offers authoritative and inspired new versions of Rimbaud’s major poems and letters, including generous selection of Illuminations and the entirety of his lacerating confession A Season in Hell—capturing as never before not only the meaning but also the daredevil attitudes and incantatory rhythms that make Rimbaud’s works among the most perpetually modern of his or any other generation.

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Illuminations Jan 1, 2013

by Arthur Rimbaud

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This uncompleted suite of poems by French poet Arthur Rimbaud was first published serially in the Paris literary review magazine "La Vogue." The magazine published part of "Illuminations" from May to June 1886. Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud's lover, suggested the publication of these poems, written between 1873 and 1875, in book form. All forty-two of the poems generally considered as part of "Illuminations" are collected together here in this edition. Of these forty-two poems almost all are in a prose poem format, the two exceptions are "Seapiece" and "Motion", which are vers libre. There is no universally defined order to the poems in "Illuminations", while many scholars believe the order of the poems to be irrelevant, this edition begins traditionally with "Après Le Deluge" or "After the Flood." Albert Camus hailed Rimbaud as "the poet of revolt, and the greatest." The worth of this praise for Rimbaud can be seen in "Illuminations", one of the most exemplary works of his poetic talent.

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Rimbaud Complete (Modern Library Classics) Mar 27, 2013

by Arthur Rimbaud, Wyatt Mason

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Enduring icon of creativity, authenticity, and rebellion, and the subject of numerous new biographies, Arthur Rimbaud is one of the most repeatedly scrutinized literary figures of the last half-century. Yet almost thirty years have elapsed without a major new translation of his writings. Remedying this state of affairs is Rimbaud Complete, the first and only truly complete edition of Rimbaud’s work in English, translated, edited, and introduced by Wyatt Mason.

Mason draws on a century of Rimbaud scholarship to choreograph a superbly clear-eyed presentation of the poet’s works. He arranges Rimbaud’s writing chronologically, based on the latest manuscript evidence, so readers can experience the famously teenaged poet’s rapid evolution, from the lyricism of “Sensation” to the groundbreaking early modernism of A Season in Hell.

In fifty pages of previously untranslated material, including award-winning early verses, all the fragmentary poems, a fascinating early draft of A Season in Hell, a school notebook, and multiple manuscript versions of the important poem “O saisons, ô chateaux,” Rimbaud Complete displays facets of the poet unknown to American readers. And in his Introduction, Mason revisits the Rimbaud myth, addresses the state of disarray in which the poet left his work, and illuminates the intricacies of the translator’s art.

Mason has harnessed the precision and power of the poet’s rapidly changing voice: from the delicate music of a poem such as “Crows” to the mature dissonance of the Illuminations, Rimbaud Complete unveils this essential poet for a new generation of readers.

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A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat (Second Edition) Oct 5, 2011

by Arthur Rimbaud, Patti Smith, Louise Varèse

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A reissue of Rimbaud’s highly influential work, with a new preface by Patti Smith and the original 1945 New Directions cover design by Alvin lustig.

New Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bilingual edition of Rimbaud’s A Season In Hell & The Drunken Boat — a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be released from “the examination of his own depths.”

Rimbaud originally distributed A Season In Hell to friends as a self-published booklet, and soon afterward, at the age of nineteen, quit poetry altogether. New Directions’s edition was among the first to be published in the U.S., and it quickly became a classic. Rimbaud’s famous poem “The Drunken Boat” was subsequently added to the first paperbook printing. Allen Ginsberg proclaimed Arthur Rimbaud as “the first punk” — a visionary mentor to the Beats for both his recklessness and his fiery poetry.

This new edition proudly dons the original Alvin Lustig–designed cover, and a introduction by another famous rebel — and now National Book Award–winner — Patti Smith.

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Arthur Rimbaud : Oeuvres complètes et annexes (nouvelle édition enrichie) - Arvensa Editions (French Edition) Dec 15, 2013

by Arthur Rimbaud, ' Arvensa Editions

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Nouvelle publication des Oeuvres complètes d'Arthur Rimbaud. Elles regroupent ses poésies en vers et en prose, des textes inédits, ses compositions latines et sa correspondance dans une édition — augmentée de nombreuses notes explicatives, d'illustrations et de gravures originales — qui satisfera les lecteurs les plus exigeants.
Des annexes viennent compléter cet ouvrage de référence dont la célèbre biographie de Paterne Berrichon.
Il s'agit de l'ouvrage le plus complet à ce jour des oeuvres d'Arthur Rimbaud.

CONTENU DÉTAILLÉ :

— Préface de Paul Verlaine :

— Premiers vers :
• Premiers vers : proses liminaires
• Premiers vers partie I : 1869-1870
• Premiers vers partie II : 1870 (guerre)
• Premiers vers partie III : 1871
• Premiers vers : prose finale

— Les Illuminations
• Les illuminations : vers nouveaux et chansons
• Les illuminations : poèmes en prose

— Une saison en enfer
— Album Zutique
— Les stupra
— Proses évangéliques
— Textes inédits
— Compositions latines
— Correspondance

— Annexes :
• Rimbaud par l'image
• Portraits symbolistes
• Jean-Arthur Rimbaud, le poète par Paterne Berrichon

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Une saison en enfer (French Edition) Jun 17, 2020

by Arthur Rimbaud

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A Season in Hell is a long poem in prose written and published in 1873 by French writer Arthur Rimbaud. It is the only work that was published by Rimbaud himself. The book had a considerable influence on later artists and poets, including the Surrealists.

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Selected Poems and Letters (Penguin Classics) Sep 2, 2004

by Arthur Rimbaud, Jeremy Harding, John Sturrock

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A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief 5-year reign as the enfant terrible of French literature he produced an extraordinary body of poems that range from the exquisite to the obsene, while simultaneously living a life of dissolute excess with his lover and fellow poet, Verlaine. At the age of 21, he abandonned poetry and travelled across Europe before settling in Africa as an arms trader. This edition sets the two sides of Rimbaud side by side with a sparkling translation of his most exhilarating poetry and a generous selection of the letters from the harsh and colourful period of his life as a colonial trader.

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I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud (Modern Library Classics) Dec 18, 2007

by Arthur Rimbaud, Wyatt Mason

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One of the most written-about literary figures in the past decade, Arthur Rimbaud left few traces when he abandoned poetry at age twenty-one and disappeared into the African desert. Although the dozen biographies devoted to Rimbaud’s life depend on one main source for information—his own correspondence—a complete edition of these remarkable letters has never been published in English. Until now.

A moving document of decline, Rimbaud’s letters begin with the enthusiastic artistic pronouncements of a fifteen-year-old genius, and end with the bitter what-ifs of a man whose life has slipped disastrously away. But whether soapboxing on the essence of art, or struggling under the yoke of self-imposed exile in the desert of his later years, Rimbaud was incapable of writing an uninteresting sentence. As translator and editor Wyatt Mason makes clear in his engaging Introduction, the letters reveal a Rimbaud very different from our expectations. Rimbaud—presented by many biographers as a bohemian wild man—is unveiled as “diligent in his pursuit of his goals . . . wildly, soberly ambitious, in poetry, in everything.”

I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud is the second and final volume in Mason’s authoritative presentation of Rimbaud’s writings. Called by Edward Hirsch “the definitive translation for our time,” Mason’s first volume, Rimbaud Complete (Modern Library, 2002), brought Rimbaud’s poetry and prose into vivid focus. In I Promise to Be Good, Mason adds the missing epistolary pieces to our picture of Rimbaud. “These letters,” he writes, “are proofs in all their variety—of impudence and precocity, of tenderness and rage—for the existence of Arthur Rimbaud.” I Promise to Be Good allows English-language readers to see with new eyes one of the most extraordinary poets in history.

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Une saison en enfer : Illuminations et autres textes (Annoté) (French Edition) Jul 27, 2021

by Arthur Rimbaud

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Le désordre somptueux d'une passion exotique, éclat d'un météore, selon Mallarmé ; un ange en exil aux yeux d'un bleu pâle inquiétant, pour Verlaine. Un " éveil génial ", et c'est Le Bateau ivre, une " puberté perverse et superbe ", puis un jeune homme brièvement " ravagé par la littérature ", le maître d'une " expression intense " aux sujets inouïs - tout cela dans un mince volume, dû au poète touché, puis déserté, par le génie, " aventure unique dans l'histoire de l'art ".

A Season in Hell, The Drunken Boat, and Illuminations Feb 8, 2019

by Arthur Rimbaud, James Sibley Watson, Lionel Abel

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Arthur Rimbaud’s “A Season in Hell” is a prose poem loosely divided into nine parts. In one part of the poem the poet portrays quite transparently his own relationship with French symbolist poet Paul Verlaine. The two had a brief alcohol and drug fueled affair which finally came to end when Verlaine shot Rimbaud in the wrist in a drunken rage. “A Season in Hell,” which has been referred to as a pioneering example of modern symbolism, is included in this collection along with “The Drunken Boat,” a fragmented first-person narrative which vividly describes the drifting and sinking of a boat lost at sea. It is probably one of the best known works from Rimbaud’s early period. Also included in this edition is what is arguably Rimbaud’s masterpiece, “Illuminations.” A collection of forty-two poems almost all of which are in a prose format. Albert Camus hailed Rimbaud as “the poet of revolt, and the greatest.” This greatness can be readily seen in this exemplary collection of “A Season in Hell, The Drunken Boat, and Illuminations”. This follows the translations of James Sibley Watson, Lionel Abel, and Wallace Fowlie.

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A Season in Hell Jun 14, 2019

by Arthur Rimbaud

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A Season in Hell is an extended poem written and published by French writer Arthur Rimbaud. The book had a considerable influence on later artists and poets, for example the Surrealists. Henry Miller was important in introducing Rimbaud to America in the sixties. He once attempted an English translation of the book and wrote an extended essay on Rimbaud and A Season in Hell titled The Time of the Assassins. The poem is loosely divided into nine parts, some of which are much shorter than others. They differ markedly in tone and narrative comprehensibility, with some, such as "Bad Blood," 'being much more obviously influenced by Rimbaud's drug use than others, some argue. Academic critics have arrived at many varied and often entirely incompatible conclusions as to what meaning and philosophy may or may not be contained in the text, and will continue to do so.

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Una temporada en el infierno (Spanish Edition) Jul 8, 2014

by Arthur Rimbaud

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Este ebook presenta "Una temporada en el infierno" con un sumario dinámico y detallado. El poema está dividido en 10 partes. Cada una se diferencia marcadamente de las otras por aspectos tales como el tono o la comprensión narrativa. Introducción — Resume la condenación del narrador e introduce la historia como "unas páginas de mi diario de condenado". Según algunos críticos fue escrito a posteriori, una vez terminado el poema. Mala sangre — Habla de las raíces galas del narrador y de su influencia en su moralidad y su estado de ánimo. Este capítulo es la puerta a los tres fracasos de Rimbaud, que serán descritos a continuación. Noche del infierno — Describe el momento de la muerte del narrador y su entrada en el infierno. Delirios II: Alquimia del verbo — Aquí el narrador nos explica sus antiguas teorías estéticas y las muestra como falsas esperanzas y sueños rotos. Contiene muchas secciones en verso. Lo imposible — Esta sección es muy poco explicativa; pero mediante la narración de un fallido intento por escapar del infierno, el narrador nos muestra el fracaso de sus teorías filosóficas y religiosas, como ya había hecho en la sección anterior con sus teorías estéticas. El relámpago — Esta corta sección es también un poco confusa y posee un tono muy fatalista y resignado. El relámpago aparece como la única luz que ilumina el infierno en donde se encuentra el narrador. Mañana — Aquí se relata la salida del narrador del infierno, en la que el poeta concluye su estadía en el infierno y se muestra al fin una luz al final del túnel. Adiós — Esta sección alude a un cambio de estación de otoño a primavera. El narrador parece haberse hecho más seguro y fuerte tras su viaje en el infierno. Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (1854 – 1891) fue uno de los más grandes poetas franceses, adscrito unas veces al movimiento simbolista, junto a Mallarmé, y otras al decadentista, junto a Verlaine.

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