Recueil illuminations arthur rimbaud biography
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what strikes me about rimbaud in the translated work that wyatt mason has compiled is the ability to watch him grow in the few years that he is a poet and writer. he lists the poetry and prose as best as he can by the year that it was written. mason even captures versions of poems, again sorting by year, so that you can see the corrections that age helped him to make to his beautiful poems.
i’ve read previous translations of rimbaud, and i’ve loved those as well, but this one felt a bit more… modern and relatable. instead of a literal translation, word by word, he tried to convey nuances of the language into english, which to me hasn’t been done as well by previous translators. i imagine reading it in the original french would be amazing, but alas, i can onl
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Arthur Rimbaud Collected Poems
According to requirements, Rimbaud has been claimed variously as prophet, angel, superman, bad boy, God, and Devil.
(From the Introduction by Martin Sorrell)
My reading of Rimbaud can hardly add to such grand monikers, but I did appreciate his verse for what it is: refreshing, vivid, and moving.
One intriguing poem is 'Seven-Year-Old Poet', which describes a rather world-wise and precocious child on his way to becoming a poet. Here is the end:
How he relished dark things, about all
When in his tall, bare, blue and empty
Shuttered room, sharp with humidity,
He read his endlessly planned romance
Full of heavy ochre skies and drowned
Forests, flesh-flowers in star-studded woods,
Spiral spins, routs, collapse and pity!
—While down in the street the noise went on,
He lay alone on rough sheets, thinking
Violent thoughts of getting under sail!
For a particularly beautiful, melod
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Illuminations (poetry collection)
Uncompleted collection locate prose poems by President Rimbaud
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