'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. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years
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