'Rimbaud, the poet of revolt, and the greatest' Albert Camus 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.
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5 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Rimbaud's poetry is generally dark, and disheartening but when considering the fact that it was all written in his adolescence, its genius is undeniable. His fantastic command of surreal imagery and twisted metaphors is amazing to read, yet the undercurrents of a genius-mind evidently tortured and twisted out of all recognition is as disturbing as it is enthralling. You may well find yourself somewhat regretting and yet still enjoying reading this collection. (Note, even if you have no knowledge of French, READ THE FRENCH! Much of the power of the poetry comes from its rhythm which is lost in translation)
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By J. Roberts
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One phrase which is used endlessly in literature is 'enfant terrible', and it is a phrase which has often been used to describe Arthur Rimbaud.
I personally don't regard him as a stand-out poet. His poetry contains a lot of vivid imagery, a lot of classical allusions and many other poetic techniques such as alliteration and assonance, but his subject matter is often juvenile. This doesn't surprise me considering he was only a very young man when wrote most of them.
There are moments of incredible beauty, granted, but there are also moments of incredible crudeness, where he desrcibes disgusting bodily functions in even more disgusting vernacular. Such poems were hardly worthy of being published, and definitely not worthy of being hailed as genius.
The publishing industry loves to 'create' heroes, especially if they are from the correct background, which Rimbaud was. Unfortunately, Rimbaud was no hero, he was just a reasonably competent poet who wrote a few decent poems. That's about it.
I personally don't regard him as a stand-out poet. His poetry contains a lot of vivid imagery, a lot of classical allusions and many other poetic techniques such as alliteration and assonance, but his subject matter is often juvenile. This doesn't surprise me considering he was only a very young man when wrote most of them.
There are moments of incredible beauty, granted, but there are also moments of incredible crudeness, where he desrcibes disgusting bodily functions in even more disgusting vernacular. Such poems were hardly worthy of being published, and definitely not worthy of being hailed as genius.
The publishing industry loves to 'create' heroes, especially if they are from the correct background, which Rimbaud was. Unfortunately, Rimbaud was no hero, he was just a reasonably competent poet who wrote a few decent poems. That's about it.
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24 Nov 2011
By Jackson M. Dunckel
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Really. I braved the last review, and threw away $7. English and French is all mixed up, so it's useless even if you're fluent.
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Great translation, but the e-book is messed up.
8 July 2009
By Douglas Matus
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I was thrilled when I found this; I've been wanting a decent kindle edition of Rimbaud's poems for some time. I was so excited I bought it without looking at the preview, which was unfortunate, because something went horrible wrong with the e-book conversion. The book is supposed to be the original French with facing English translations. In the Kindle edition, however, the English and French are randomly mixed up; poems will have a few French stanzas, then a couple English; or, the English translation will abruptly end, with the remainder randomly inserted into the next poem. Extremely frustrating. Please fix this Amazon, or, better yet, create a decent Kindle edition of the Wyatt Mason translations.
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