Collected Poems (Oxford World's Classics Series)
Rimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary, hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms. He wrote all his poems between the ages of about fifteen and twenty-one, after which he turned his back on family, friends, and France to roam the world. In his final years he was a trader in the Horn of Africa. Out of this brief, colorful life and wilderness of sensory poetry, a mythic Rimbaud has been...
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Rimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary, hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms. He wrote all his poems between the ages of about fifteen and twenty-one, after which he turned his back on family, friends, and France to roam the world. In his final years he was a trader in the Horn of Africa. Out of this brief, colorful life and wilderness of sensory poetry, a mythic Rimbaud has been created. One of the greatest French poets of all times, Rimbaud has become an enduring icon of youth, rebellion, and freedom—though behind the myth of the man lies a poetic adventure of high ambition and painful rigor, poignant yet heroic. This bilingual edition provides all of Rimbaud's poems, with the exception of his Latin verses and some small fragments. It also includes some of his prose pieces, chosen because they offer a commentary on his poetic concerns.
IntroductionNote on the Text and TranslationSelect BibliographyA Chronology of Arthur RimbaudOrphans' New Year Gifts3First Night9Sensation11The Blacksmith11Sun and Skin21Ophelia29Hanged Men Dance33Tartufe's Punishment35Venus Emerging37Nina Answers Back37To Music45Wide-eyed47Romance51'The dead of '92 and '93 ...'53Evil53Caesars' Rage55Winter Dream57Asleep in the Valley57At the Green Inn, five p.m59Cunning59'Centre: the Emperor ...'61The Dresser63My Bohemia (Fantasy)63Crows65Seated67The Customs Men69Tortured Heart71Paris War-Cry73My Little Lovebirds75Squatting Down79Parisian Orgy, or Paris Filling Up Again81The Hands of Jeanne-Marie85Sisters of Charity91The Just Man93Seven-year-old Poets97Poor People in Church101What the Poet is Told on the Subject of Flowers103First Communions115Drunken Boat125Lice-Seekers131Faun's Head133Evening Prayers133Vowels135'The star's wept ...'135Lilies137Sealed Lips137Fete galante137'I was sitting ...'139'In Spring, no doubt ...'139'Progress, big baby ...'141Stupidities I. Young Glutton141Stupidities II. Paris141Stupidities - Second Series: I Drunken Coachman143Old Lady's Old Men!145State of Siege?145The Broom145Exiles147Damned Cherub147'On summer nights ...'149'To my bedside reading ...'149Saturnian hypotyposes, ex-Belmontet151Remembrances of Senility151Recollection155'The child who picked up bullets ...'157The Idol. Arsehole Sonnet159'Our buttocks ...'159'Once, animals spewed ...'161'What do they mean to us ...'163Memory165Tear167Blackcurrant River169Comedy of Thirst171Lovely Morning Thought175Festival of Patience: Banners of May177Festival of Patience: Song from the Highest Tower179Festival of Patience: Eternity181Festival of Patience: Golden Age183Young Couple187Michael and Christine189'Flowerbeds of amaranth ...'191'Does she dance? ...'193Festivals of Hunger193'O seasons, o chateaux ...'195'Hear the bellow'197Shame199Mess-room by Night201The Deserts of Love203Fragments According to the Gospel207Once, if I remember well ...211Bad Blood211Night in Hell223First Delirium. The Foolish Virgin. The Infernal Bridegroom227Second Delirium. Alchemy of the Word235The Impossible245Lightning249Morning251Farewell251After the Flood257Childhood259Tale263Parade265Antique265Being Beauteous267'O the ashen face ...'267Lives267Departure269Royalty271To a Reason271Morning of Drunkenness271Phrases273[Phrases]275Workers275The Bridges277City277Ruts279Cities [I]279Tramps281Cities [II]283Vigils285Mystical287Dawn287Flowers289Vulgar Nocturne289Seascape291Winter Festival291Anguish291Metropolitan293Barbaric293Sale295Fairy297Youth297War301Promontory301Scenes303Historic Evening303Bottom305H305Movement307Devotions309Democracy309Genie311Explanatory Notes313Index of Titles327Index of First Lines331
