Rimbaud: The Double Life Of A Rebel
by:
Edmund White (author)
Poet and prodigy Arthur Rimbaud led a life that was startlingly short, yet dramatically eventful and accomplished. His long poem 'Une Saison en Enfer' (1873) and his collection 'Illuminations' (1886) are central to the modern canon. This book explores the young poet's relationships with his...
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Poet and prodigy Arthur Rimbaud led a life that was startlingly short, yet dramatically eventful and accomplished. His long poem 'Une Saison en Enfer' (1873) and his collection 'Illuminations' (1886) are central to the modern canon. This book explores the young poet's relationships with his family and his teachers.
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ISBN:
9781843549710 (1843549719)
Publish date: 2009
Publisher: Atlantic
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
This is an excellent book for what it is -- a very brief and readable biography of this remarkable figure, focused largely on his sick relationship with Verlaine; but also an intelligent meditation on Rimbaud's poetics, albeit in brief. White thinks that Enid Starkie's biography is excellent and re...
The only biography of Rimbaud that I've read. I appreciated White's frankness about letting his own hand be seen, as he tried to understand these lives. One thing that I took away from it was a way of seeing Rimbaud's wild poetic years as an integral part of his totally conservative life before and ...
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