![]() ![]() The first translation of the poet's complete works. More than a century after his death, the young rebel-poet continues to appeal to modern readers as much for his turbulent life as for his poetry his stormy affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine and his nomadic adventures in eastern Africa are as iconic as his hallucinatory poems and symbolist prose. The enfant terrible of French letters, Jean-Nicholas-Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) was a defiant and precocious youth who wrote some of the most remarkable prose and poetry of the nineteenth century, all before leaving the world of verse by the age of twenty-one. Num Pages: 496 pages, 6halftones, 7line drawings. ![]() Retaining the first edition's literal and respectful translations of Rimbaud's complex and nontraditional verse - after correcting errors and reordering poems - this edition also contains a foreword that considers the heritage of the first edition and adds a bibliography that acknowledges relevant books. ![]() Description for Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters, a Bilingual Edition Paperback. ![]()
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