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Selected Poems and Letters (Rimbaud, Arthur): Parallel Text Edition with Plain Prose Translations of Eachpoem

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Selected Poems and Letters (Rimbaud, Arthur): Parallel Text Edition with Plain Prose Translations of Eachpoem - Rimbaud, Arthur, and Sturrock, John (Notes by), and Harding, Jeremy (Translated by)
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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 ...

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Selected Poems and Letters (Rimbaud, Arthur): Parallel Text Edition with Plain Prose Translations of Eachpoem 2005, Penguin Group

ISBN-13: 9780140448023

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