Selected Poems and Letters (Rimbaud, Arthur): Parallel Text Edition with Plain Prose Translations of Eachpoem

by Arthur Rimbaud

Book Overview

A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief 5-year reign as the enfant terrible of French literature he produced an extraordinary body of poems that range from the exquisite to the obsene, while simultaneously living a life of dissolute excess with his lover and fellow poet, Verlaine. At the age of 21, he abandonned poetry and travelled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140448020
• ISBN13: 9780140448023
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher