| Auteur | Rimbaud, Arthur |
| ISBN | 9780486430874 |
| Uitgeverij |
Widely regarded as one of the originators of prose poems and certainly one of the masters of the form, the boy genius Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) created a huge and incredibly rich body of work -- imaginative, subtle, and infinitely suggestive -- before he reached the age of 20 and renounced poetry writing forever. The prose poems in this superb collection, written when Rimbaud was between 15 and 20, became a rallying point of the poetic avant-garde during the late nineteenth century and remain a source of inspiration for their youthful, rebellious spirit and unmatched verbal allure. Here in their entirety are the great prose-poem collections A Season in Hell and Illuminations. Most of his early verse poems, among them such masterpieces as 'The Drunken Boat,' are also included. Witty, sarcastic, and expressive, these poems -- required reading for students of world literature and of interest to a wide, general audience -- appear in the original French, with fine new literal translations
