This volume collects the works of Arthur Rimbaud, the teenage poet of the French Symbolist period: early poems such as "Le Dormeur du val" and "Le Bateau ivre," the prose poems of Illuminations, and the long confessional A Season in Hell. It also includes letters, including the "Lettres du voyant," in which he sets out his idea of the poet as seer, along with annexes.
Readers of French poetry and anyone curious about the roots of modern verse will find all his work in one place. It is a reference volume as much as a reading book, to be returned to over the years.
Deep, inward-looking and open-ended; a demanding read.
Best for readers like The Literary Connoisseur. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Arvensa Editions
- ISBN
- 9782368419984
- Language
- FR
