A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
New translations of Rimbaud's two great visionary poems, among the most startling and influential poetry of the modern age. "A Season in Hell" (1873) reviews his visionary claims for poetry, his ideal of the poet as seer, through the systematic disordering of the senses, of poetry as part of life and of action. "Illuminations" (1873), an extended prose poem, is both a series of visual images, and of mood pictures, with no one voice or identity; the poet in a series of shifting roles explores the pluralistic notions of the self.
Rimbaud, born in 1854, started to write at an early age. By 17 he had written his most famous poem, 'The Drunken Boat'. He then embarked on a turbulent homosexual relationship with the poet Verlaine, from which came some of their most original work, including A Season in Hell and Illuminations. Rimbaud rejected writing at the age of 20. After years of travelling and gun-running in Africa, he died in 1891, aged 37. Editor Biography Mark Treharne taught in the University of Warwick before becoming a freelance translator. Currently he i
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| ISBN 13 | 9780460879583 |
| ISBN 10 | 0460879588 |
| Title | A Season in Hell |
| Author | Arthur Rimbaud |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 1998-05-11 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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