Research Catalog

Title

Collected poems / Arthur Rimbaud ; translated with an introduction and notes by Martin Sorrel.

Author

Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sorrell, Martin
• Sorrell, Martin.

Description

xxxvi, 337 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

From the Publisher: 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 fifteen and twenty-one, 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 this brief, colorful life and wilderness of sensory poetry, a mythic Rimbaud has been created. One of the greatest French poets of all times, Rimbaud has become an enduring icon of youth, rebellion, and freedom-though behind the myth of the man lies a poetic adventure of high ambition and painful rigor, poignant yet heroic. 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.

Series Statement

Oxford world's classics

Uniform Title

• Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
• Poems. English

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891 > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Translations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction -- Note on the text and translation -- Select bibliography -- Chronology of Arthur Rimbaud -- Collected Poems: Poems, 1869-1871-- Orphans' New Year gifts -- First night -- Sensation -- Blacksmith -- Sun and skin -- Ophelia -- Hanged men dance -- Tartufe's punishment -- Venus emerging -- Nina answers back -- To music -- Wide-eyed -- Romance -- Dead of '92 and '93 -- Evil -- Caesars' rage -- Winter dream -- Asleep in the valley -- At the Green Inn, five pm -- Cunning -- Centre: the Emperor -- Dresser -- My Bohemia (fantasy) -- Crows -- Seated -- Customs men -- Tortured heart -- Paris war-cry -- My little lovebirds -- Squatting down -- Parisian orgy, or Paris filling up again -- Hands of Jeanne-Marie -- Sisters of Charity -- Just man -- Seven-year-old poets -- Poor people in church -- What the poet is told on the subject of flowers -- First Communions -- Drunken boat -- Lice-seekers -- Faun's head -- Evening prayers -- Vowels -- Star's wept -- Poems From Album Zutique: Lilies -- Sealed lips -- Fete galante -- I was sitting -- In spring, no doubt -- Progress, big baby -- Stupidities 1: young glutton -- Stupidities 2: Paris -- Stupidities-second series: 1 drunken coachman -- Old lady's old men! -- State of siege? -- Broom -- Exiles -- Damned cherub -- On summer nights -- To my bedside reading -- Saturnian hypotyposes, ex-Belmontet -- Remembrances of senility -- Recollection -- Child who picked up bullets -- Stupra: Idol. Arsehole sonnet -- Our buttocks -- Once, animals spewed -- Last Poems: What do they mean to us -- Memory -- Tear -- Blackcurrant River -- Comedy of thirst -- Lovely morning thought -- Festivals of patience: Banners of May -- Song from the highest tower -- Eternity -- Golden age -- Young couple -- Michael and Christine -- Flowerbeds of amaranth -- Does she dance? -- Festivals of Hunger -- O seasons, o chateaux -- Hear the bellow -- Shame -- Mess-room by night -- Deserts of love -- Fragments according to the Gospel.
• Season in Hell: Once, if I remember well -- Bad blood -- Night in Hell -- First delirium-Foolish virgin-Infernal bridegroom -- Second Delirium-Alchemy of the Word -- Impossible -- Lightning -- Morning -- Farewell -- Illuminations: After the flood -- Childhood -- Tale -- Parade -- Antique -- Being beauteous -- O the ashen face -- Lives -- Departure -- Royalty -- To a reason -- Morning of drunkenness -- Phrases -- Phrases -- Workers -- Bridges -- City -- Ruts -- Cities [1] -- Tramps -- Cities [2] -- Vigils -- Mystical -- Dawn -- Flowers -- Vulgar nocturne -- Seascape -- Winter festival -- Anguish -- Metropolitan -- Barbaric -- Sale -- Fairy -- Youth -- War -- Promontory -- Scenes -- Historic evening -- Bottom -- H -- Movement -- Devotions -- Democracy -- Genie -- Explanatory notes -- Index of titles -- Index of first lines.

ISBN

0192833448

LCCN

^^2001021589

OCLC

46433987

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library