Rimbaud Complete

Arthur Rimbaud, Wyatt Mason, Wyatt Mason , Wyatt Mason

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English

Random House
01 April 2003

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

Series: Modern Library Classics

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.

By: Arthur Rimbaud
Introduction by: Wyatt Mason
Edited by: Wyatt Mason
Translated by: Wyatt Mason
Imprint: Random House
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 527g
ISBN: 9780375757709
ISBN 10: 0375757708
Series: Modern Library Classics
Pages: 656
Publication Date: 01 April 2003
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Rimbaud Complete

The definitive translation for our time. --Edward Hirsch Wyatt Mason has located and tapped into Rimbaud's voice as it swings from gnarled to straight-ahead to mystic to raucous. --Roger Shattuck An important introduction of Rimbaud to another generation of readers. -- Booklist The best opportunity thus far to experience Rimbaud as fully as possible in English. Here is Rimbaud uncensored: the savage maker, the scathing satirist, the rigorous Alchemist of the Word, the master of metrics and innovator of the prose poem, the figure who made himself absolutely modern, the poetic visionary whose work systematically disorders the senses and resonates with a strange beauty, an exultant splendor. --Edward Hirsch A welcome addition to the shelf of Rimbaud in English. Mason's tireless zeal and endless inventiveness compel unfailing admiration. --Arthur Goldhammer