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Arthur Rimbaud was one of the wildest, most uncompromising poets of his age, although his brief literary career was over by the time he was twenty-one when he embarked on a new life as a trader in Africa. This edition brings together his extraordinary poetry and more than a hundred of his letters, most of them written after he had abandoned literature. A master of French verse forms, the young Rimbaud set out to transform his art, and language itself, by a systematic "disordering of all the senses," often with the aid of alcohol and drugs. The result is a highly innovative, modern body of work, obscene and lyrical by turns-a rigorous journey to extremes.
Jeremy Harding and John Sturrock's new translation includes Rimbaud's greatest verse, as well as his record of youthful torment, A Season in Hell (1873), and letters that unveil the man who turned his back on poetry.
About the Author
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) is one of France's most controversial and influential poets, though he gave up his career at a young age.
Jeremy Harding is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books, a translator, and journalist.
John Sturrock is consulting editor for the London Review of Books, a literary critic, travel writer, and translator of, among other works, Sodom and Gomorrah by Proust (forthcoming from Penguin Classics).
Selected Poems and Letters,Arthur Rimbaud,John Sturrock,Jeremy Harding,Penguin Classics,0140448020,1854-1891,American - General,Classics,Fiction,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Rimbaud, Arthur,,Translations into English,Fiction / Literary,Other prose: from c 1900 -,Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -
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