Arthur Rimbaud
Birth date: October 20, 1854
Died: November 10, 1891
Arthur Rimbaud's Books
The rating is for the volume at hand, obviously, not for Rimbaud (most of which, apart from some well-known passages, I don't in the least understand: I read Season in Hell, Illuminations, Drunken Boat).Appelbaum's translations are pretty awful, and at times out and out wrong. But as a dual-language...
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Poetry has always been kinda dull to me. Some poetry is pretty, but I've never really seen the point to it.And then I discovered Rimbaud.The thing about Rimbaud is that you can't read his poetry without knowing at least some of his backstory. His religious upbringing. His frequent rebellions and esc...