Rimbaud Complete (Modern Library)

Rimbaud, Arthur,Mason, Wyatt

ISBN 10: 0679642307 / ISBN 13: 9780679642305

Editore: Modern Library, 2002

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• Titolo: Rimbaud Complete (Modern Library)
• Editore: Modern Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0679642307
• ISBN 13: 9780679642305
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

Incorporating more than forty pages of previously untranslated material, this complete collection of poetry and prose by the revolutionary nineteenth-century poet includes such works as "Sensation," "The Drunken Boat," "A Season in Hell," and "Illuminations," all complemented by an authoritative introduction to the life, work, myth, and influence of Arthur Rimbaud. 15,000 first printing.

Informazioni sull?autore

The poetic genius of Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) blossomed early and burned briefly. Nearly all of his work was composed when he was in his teens, before all trace of his literary life disappeared with him into the African desert of his later years. During the century following his death at thirty-seven, Rimbaud’s work and life have influenced generations of readers and writers. Radical in its day, Rimbaud’s writing took some of the first and most fundamental steps toward the liberation of poetry from the formal constraints of its history, and now represents one of the most powerful and enduring bodies of poetic expression in human history.

Wyatt Mason studied literature at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and the University of Paris. His first translation, Pierre Michon’s