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Arthur Rimbaud - Illuminations: Prose poems - 9780811201841 - V9780811201841
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Illuminations: Prose poems

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Description for Illuminations: Prose poems Paperback. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: DC; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 201 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 244.
The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous prestige among readers everywhere and have been a revolutionary influence on poetry in the twentieth century. They are offered here both in their original texts and in superb English translations by Louise Varèse. Mrs. Varèse first published her versions of Rimbaud’s Illuminations in 1946. Since then she has revised her work and has included two poems which in the interim have been reclassified as part of Illuminations. This edition also contains two other series of prose poems, which include two poems only recently discovered in France, together with an ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1957
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811201841
SKU
V9780811201841
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-14

About Arthur Rimbaud
Unknown beyond the avant-garde at the time of his death in 1891, Arthur Rimbaud has become one of the most liberating influences on twentieth-century culture. Born Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud in Charleville, France, in 1854, Rimbaud’s family moved to Cours d’Orléans, when he was eight, where he began studying both Latin and Greek at the Pension Rossat. While he disliked ... Read more

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