Selected Poems and Letters of Arthur Rimbaud (Penguin Classics Series)
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...
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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.
Poems1The orphans' New Year gifts2First attempt8Sensation10Blacksmith12Ophelia22Dance of the hanged men26Tartufe punished28Venus rising from the water30Nina gets back to him32Set to music40Popular fiction42At the Green Inn46Knowing way46My bohemia (fantasy)48Seat-people50Heart of a clown52The hands of Jeanne-Marie54Seven-year-old poets58To the poet on the matter of flowers62First communion74Drunken boat86The seekers of lice92Vowels94Idol. arsehole sonnet96I. Drunken coachman (from 'imbecilities 2nd series')98State of siege?98Very old guard100Reminiscence of an aged Cretin100'Animals in former times ...'104'Our buttocks are not like theirs ...'104'What are they to us ...'108Memory110Tear114River of Cassis114Comedy of thirst116Good thought for the morning122Song from the highest tower (from 'festivals of patience')124Festivals of hunger126[Happiness]128Shame130Foreword132'It's the same countryside ...'132'This time it's the woman ...'134'Once, if I recall correctly ...'138Bad blood140Night in hell150Delirium I : foolish virgin, infernal groom156Delirium II : alchemy of the word164The impossible176Lightning180Morning182Adieu184After the flood188Childhood190Lives194Departure198To a version of reason198Morning of intoxication198Fragments/12200Workers202The bridges202City204Cities (I)204Tramps208Vigils208Dawn210Seascape212Barbaric212Sale214Youth216Promontory218Historic evening220Movement222Democracy224Genie224Letters229
