Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters
by Wallace Fowlie
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so, even though this collection includes a season in hell and the drunken boat i gave it a lower rating than the book with just those two poems...i know, weird huh? the reason: this collection can be a bit overwhelming if you are not already a rimbaud fan. while i enjoyed the many glorious encounters in this book nothing touched me as the two poems i mentioned above, it only added to my already established fervor for the man and his words.
i need to say that i am a middling poet (at the least,...more
i need to say that i am a middling poet (at the least,...more
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Read in October, 1981
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I first read this excellent collection of Rimbaud's work as an underclassman, and his writing has stayed with me ever since. Haunting, alternately serene and tragic, always compelling, Rimbaud's poetry and poetic narratives have an enormous, if sometimes disturbing, power. A tragic figure in his own right (his writing career ended, for unknown reasons, at the age of nineteen after being shot by the poet Verlaine, and he died at the age of thirty-seven), Rimbaud bares his soul in these often se...more
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Read in July, 1998
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Read in February, 2008
This translation isn't my favorite--it's a bit dry--but it's still fantastic poetry. "My Bohemian Life" and "At the Green Inn" are brilliant, and my favorite is "A Dream for Winter." I haven't read A Season in Hell and the long ones yet--maybe after my current class is over.
Here's a good Web site for Rimbaud poems:
http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/Po...
Here's a good Web site for Rimbaud poems:
http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/Po...
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Not the best translation by a long shot (for the best translation of Rimbaud, see Samuel Beckett's translation of Le bateau îvre), but certainly the most complete English translation. Ideally read in the original (Rimbaud uses a lot of neologisms) and with a hearty serving of rimbaudian biography (it's very interesting)...
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A must read/have for the surrealist/symbolist writer. Includes all of Rimbaud's work. For such a short lifespan, he was able to change the ways we look at language.
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Ah, Rimbaud....I don't read much poetry, but I have to say Rimbaud is one of the finest poets who ever lived. Check out the poem Le bateau ivre.
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Read in March, 2005
A moderately good translation, and the side-by-side English and French versions are useful, but I prefer Dennis Carlile's translation better.
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This is a book of poetry with the French translation included... You can read it over and over again (I do). Rimbaud was the original hobo.
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A pretty decent literal translation with original french on facing pages. Invaluable.
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If it's good enough for Bob Dylan it is good enough for me!
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