Collected Poems — Arthur Rimbaud

Rimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms He wrote all his poems between the ages of about 15 and 21 after which he turned his back on family friends and France to roam the world In his final years he was a trader in the Horn of Africa Out of the brief colourful life and the poetry of sensory wildness has been created the myth of Rimbaud an enduring icon of youth rebellion and freedom But behind the myth lies a poetic adventure of high ambition and painful rigour poignant yet heroic Rimbaud is one of the greatest French poets of all times This bilingual edition provides all of Rimbauds poems with the exception of his Latin verses and some small fragments It also includes some of his prose pieces chosen because they offer a commentary on his poetic concerns

Rimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms He wrote all his poems between the ages of about 15 and 21 after which he turned his back on family friends and France to roam the world In his final years he was a trader in the Horn of Africa Out of the brief colourful life and the poetry of sensory wildness has been created the myth of Rimbaud an enduring icon of youth rebellion and freedom But behind the myth lies a poetic adventure of high ambition and painful rigour poignant yet heroic Rimbaud is one of the greatest French poets of all times This bilingual edition provides all of Rimbaud s poems with the exception of his Latin verses and some small fragments It also includes some of his prose pieces chosen because they offer a commentary on his poetic concerns