Arthur Rimbaud,Louise VarÃ¨se
Although Arthur Rimbaud stopped writing at the age of 19, he possessed the most revolutionary talent of the century. His poetry & prose have increasingly influenced major writers. To his masterpiece ,A Season in Hell, is here added Rimbaud's longest & possibly greatest single poem ,The Drunken Boat,, with the original French ,en face Illuminations,, Rimbaud's major works are available as bilingual New Directions Paperbooks. The reputation of ,A Season in Hell,, which is a poetic record of a man's examination of his own depths, has steadily increased over the years. Upon the 1st publication of Varese's translation by New Directions, the ,Saturday Review, wrote: "One may at last suggest that the translation of ,A Season in Hell, has reached a conclusive point..." Concerning the 25-stanza ,The Drunken Boat,, Dr Enid Starkie of Oxford University has written: "(It's) an anthology of separate lines of astonishing evocative magic which linger in the mind like isolated jewels." Rimbaud's life was so extraordinary that it has taken on the quality of a myth. A biographical chronology is included.
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A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat