A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat

The classic influential poems by Rimbaud, in a bilingual en face edition featuring acclaimed translations by Louise Varése. Although he stopped writing at the age of nineteen, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) possessed the most revolutionary talent of the past hundred years, and his poetry and prose have increasingly influenced the major writers of our century. To his masterpiece A Season in Hell is here added Rimbaud's longest and possibly greatest single poem The Drunken Boat, with the original French en face. The reputation of A Season in Hell, which is a poetic record of a man's examination of his own depths, has steadily increased over the years. Upon the first publication of Mrs. Varese's translation by New Directions, the Saturday Review wrote: "One may at last suggest that the translation of A Season in Hell has reached a conclusive point..." Concerning the twenty-five-stanza The Drunken Boat, Dr. Enid Starkie of Oxford University has written: "(It is) an anthology of separate lines of astonishing evocative magic which linger in the mind like isolated jewels." Rimbaud's life was so extraordinary that it has taken on the quality of a myth. A biographical chronology is included in this book.
ASIN: 0811201856
VSKU: LFV.0811201856.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Arthur Rimbaud|Louise Varese
Binding: Mass market paperback
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Condition Notes: Book is in very good condition. Clean with little to no signs of wear or markings highlights.