Rimbaud Complete

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Enduring icon of creativity, authenticity, and rebellion, and the subject of numerous new biographies, Arthur Rimbaud is one of the most repeatedly scrutinized literary figures of the last half-century. Yet almost thirty years have elapsed without a major new translation of his writings. Remedying this state of affairs is Rimbaud Complete, the first and only truly complete edition of Rimbaud’s work in English, translated, edited, and introduced by Wyatt Mason.Mason draws on a century of Rimbaud scholarship to choreograph a superbly clear-eyed presentation of the poet’s works. He arranges Rimbaud’s writing chronologically, based on the latest manuscript evidence, so readers can experience the famously teenaged poet’s rapid evolution, from the lyricism of “Sensation” to the groundbreaking early modernism of A Season in Hell. In fifty pages of previously untranslated material, including award-winning early verses, all the fragmentary poems, a fascinating early draft of A Season in Hell, a school notebook, and multiple manuscript versions of the important poem “O saisons, ? chateaux,” Rimbaud Complete displays facets of the poet unknown to American readers. And in his Introduction, Mason revisits the Rimbaud myth, addresses the state of disarray in which the poet left his work, and illuminates the intricacies of the translator’s art.Mason has harnessed the precision and power of the poet’s rapidly changing voice: from the delicate music of a poem such as “Crows” to the mature dissonance of the Illuminations, Rimbaud Complete unveils this essential poet for a new generation of readers.From the Hardcover edition. Contents
......Page 8 Introduction
......Page 17 A Note to the Reader
......Page 35 Poetry
......Page 38 1869
......Page 39 1870
......Page 44 1871
......Page 86 Undated Poems, c. 1870-1872
......Page 127 1872
......Page 136 1871-1872, From the Album Zutique
......Page 163 Prose
......Page 185 1866, "The Sun Was Still Hot..."
......Page 186 1870, A Heart Under a Cassock
......Page 191 Untitled......Page 208 1873, A Season in Hell
......Page 218 1872-1874, Illuminations
......Page 246 Uncollected Writings
......Page 298 Schoolwork
......Page 299 From a
School Notebook......Page 324 Fragments and Reconstructions
......Page 345 A Draft of A Season in Hell
......Page 362 Four Seasons
......Page 375 Letters, "The Artist as Critic"
......Page 381 Acknowledgments
......Page 393 Selected Bibliography......Page 395