Description
Although Arthur Rimbaud stopped writing at the age of 19, he possessed the most revolutionary talent of the century. His poetry and prose have increasingly influenced major writers.
To his masterpiece A Season in Hell is added Rimbaud's longest and possibly greatest single poem, The Drunken Boat, with the original French en face Illuminations.
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.
Rimbaud's life was so extraordinary that it has taken on the quality of a myth. A biographical chronology is included.
Endorsements
"One may at last suggest that the translation of A Season in Hell has reached a conclusive point..." — Saturday Review
"(It's) an anthology of separate lines of astonishing evocative magic which linger in the mind like isolated jewels." — Dr Enid Starkie, Oxford University