Authors: Arthur Rimbaud, Martin Sorrell
ISBN-13: 9780199538959, ISBN-10: 0199538956
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: January 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Martin Sorrell has published several anthologies of French verse, translated plays for stage and radio, and has had two original plays and three stories broadcast on BBC radio. For OUP he has translated Verlaine's Selected Poems for OWC.
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 freedomthough 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.
Introduction | ||
Note on the Text and Translation | ||
Select Bibliography | ||
A Chronology of Arthur Rimbaud | ||
Orphans' New Year Gifts | 3 | |
First Night | 9 | |
Sensation | 11 | |
The Blacksmith | 11 | |
Sun and Skin | 21 | |
Ophelia | 29 | |
Hanged Men Dance | 33 | |
Tartufe's Punishment | 35 | |
Venus Emerging | 37 | |
Nina Answers Back | 37 | |
To Music | 45 | |
Wide-eyed | 47 | |
Romance | 51 | |
'The dead of '92 and '93 ...' | 53 | |
Evil | 53 | |
Caesars' Rage | 55 | |
Winter Dream | 57 | |
Asleep in the Valley | 57 | |
At the Green Inn, five p.m | 59 | |
Cunning | 59 | |
'Centre: the Emperor ...' | 61 | |
The Dresser | 63 | |
My Bohemia (Fantasy) | 63 | |
Crows | 65 | |
Seated | 67 | |
The Customs Men | 69 | |
Tortured Heart | 71 | |
Paris War-Cry | 73 | |
My Little Lovebirds | 75 | |
Squatting Down | 79 | |
Parisian Orgy, or Paris Filling Up Again | 81 | |
The Hands of Jeanne-Marie | 85 | |
Sisters of Charity | 91 | |
The Just Man | 93 | |
Seven-year-old Poets | 97 | |
Poor People in Church | 101 | |
What the Poet is Told on the Subject of Flowers | 103 | |
First Communions | 115 | |
Drunken Boat | 125 | |
Lice-Seekers | 131 | |
Faun's Head | 133 | |
Evening Prayers | 133 | |
Vowels | 135 | |
'The star's wept ...' | 135 | |
Lilies | 137 | |
Sealed Lips | 137 | |
Fete galante | 137 | |
'I was sitting ...' | 139 | |
'In Spring, no doubt ...' | 139 | |
'Progress, big baby ...' | 141 | |
Stupidities I. Young Glutton | 141 | |
Stupidities II. Paris | 141 | |
Stupidities - Second Series: I Drunken Coachman | 143 | |
Old Lady's Old Men! | 145 | |
State of Siege? | 145 | |
The Broom | 145 | |
Exiles | 147 | |
Damned Cherub | 147 | |
'On summer nights ...' | 149 | |
'To my bedside reading ...' | 149 | |
Saturnian hypotyposes, ex-Belmontet | 151 | |
Remembrances of Senility | 151 | |
Recollection | 155 | |
'The child who picked up bullets ...' | 157 | |
The Idol. Arsehole Sonnet | 159 | |
'Our buttocks ...' | 159 | |
'Once, animals spewed ...' | 161 | |
'What do they mean to us ...' | 163 | |
Memory | 165 | |
Tear | 167 | |
Blackcurrant River | 169 | |
Comedy of Thirst | 171 | |
Lovely Morning Thought | 175 | |
Festival of Patience: Banners of May | 177 | |
Festival of Patience: Song from the Highest Tower | 179 | |
Festival of Patience: Eternity | 181 | |
Festival of Patience: Golden Age | 183 | |
Young Couple | 187 | |
Michael and Christine | 189 | |
'Flowerbeds of amaranth ...' | 191 | |
'Does she dance? ...' | 193 | |
Festivals of Hunger | 193 | |
'O seasons, o chateaux ...' | 195 | |
'Hear the bellow' | 197 | |
Shame | 199 | |
Mess-room by Night | 201 | |
The Deserts of Love | 203 | |
Fragments According to the Gospel | 207 | |
Once, if I remember well ... | 211 | |
Bad Blood | 211 | |
Night in Hell | 223 | |
First Delirium. The Foolish Virgin. The Infernal Bridegroom | 227 | |
Second Delirium. Alchemy of the Word | 235 | |
The Impossible | 245 | |
Lightning | 249 | |
Morning | 251 | |
Farewell | 251 | |
After the Flood | 257 | |
Childhood | 259 | |
Tale | 263 | |
Parade | 265 | |
Antique | 265 | |
Being Beauteous | 267 | |
'O the ashen face ...' | 267 | |
Lives | 267 | |
Departure | 269 | |
Royalty | 271 | |
To a Reason | 271 | |
Morning of Drunkenness | 271 | |
Phrases | 273 | |
[Phrases] | 275 | |
Workers | 275 | |
The Bridges | 277 | |
City | 277 | |
Ruts | 279 | |
Cities [I] | 279 | |
Tramps | 281 | |
Cities [II] | 283 | |
Vigils | 285 | |
Mystical | 287 | |
Dawn | 287 | |
Flowers | 289 | |
Vulgar Nocturne | 289 | |
Seascape | 291 | |
Winter Festival | 291 | |
Anguish | 291 | |
Metropolitan | 293 | |
Barbaric | 293 | |
Sale | 295 | |
Fairy | 297 | |
Youth | 297 | |
War | 301 | |
Promontory | 301 | |
Scenes | 303 | |
Historic Evening | 303 | |
Bottom | 305 | |
H | 305 | |
Movement | 307 | |
Devotions | 309 | |
Democracy | 309 | |
Genie | 311 | |
Explanatory Notes | 313 | |
Index of Titles | 327 | |
Index of First Lines | 331 |