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Eclipse (1995) VHS ~ Leonardo DiCaprio |
 When he was not yet 17,
Arthur Rimbaud
(1854-91) electrified Paris's literary society with the incendiary
poems that later made him the guiding saint of 20th-century rebels, from
Pablo Picasso to Jim Morrison. "A Season in Hell," "The Drunken Boat," and
the prose poems of Illuminations
were epochal works that changed the nature of an art form--and yet their
author abandoned poetry at age 21 and spent the rest of his short life as
a colonial adventurer in Arabia and Africa. "He was writing in a void,"
explains British scholar Graham Robb. "In 1876, most of Rimbaud's admirers
either were still in the nursery or had yet to be conceived." Hardly
surprising, since the poet was a difficult and frequently unpleasant
person to actually know. The Parisian poets who took him under their wing
soon discovered that Rimbaud was ungrateful, crude, and as scornful of
their precious verse as he was of the Catholic Church, bourgeois
proprieties, and everything else his disapproving mother held dear.
Rimbaud's stormy affair with Paul
Verlaine estranged the older poet from his wife and, eventually, from
most of his artistic friends as well. In Robb's depiction, the poet
possessed from his earliest youth a restless, searching intellect that
permitted no compromise with convention nor tenderness for others'
weaknesses. The author doesn't soften Rimbaud's "savage cynicism" or gloss
over his frequently obnoxious behavior, yet Robb arouses our admiration
for "one of the great Romantic imaginations, festering in damp, provincial
rooms like an intelligent disease." Like Robb's excellent biographies of
Hugo and Balzac, this sharp, subtle, unsentimental portrait is both
erudite and beautifully written. --Wendy Smith |
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Arthur Rimbaud
Continued |
| POemes
Choisis : Poetry Audio CD by Arthur Rimbaud
(Audio Cassette) |
| Rimbaud:
A Biography by Graham Robb (Hardcover - October
2000) Editions: Hardcover
| Paperback
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| Rimbaud
: Collected Poems (Penguin Classics) by Arthur Rimbaud,
Oliver
Bernard (Editor) (Paperback - April 1987) |
 Rimbaud
Complete (Modern Library) by Arthur Rimbaud,
Wyatt
Mason (Translator) (Hardcover - March 2002) |
| Rimbaud
Complete Works : Selected Letters by Fowlie
Wallace,
Jean
Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud (Paperback - September
1987) |
| Rimbaud
: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) by Arthur Rimbaud
(Hardcover - April 1994) |
 Rimbaud,
the Works : A Season in Hell, Poems & Prose,
Illuminations by Dennis J. Carlile (Translator), et al
(Hardcover - May 2001) Editions: Hardcover
| Paperback
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| Season
in Hell, And, the Illuminations by Jean
Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud, et al (Paperback - February 1987)
Editions: Hardcover
| Paperback |
| Somebody
Else : Arthur Rimbaud in Africa 1880-91 by Charles Nicholl
(Paperback - March 1999) |
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More Arthur Rimbaud |
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The
Night Before Christmas Has Come and Gone...Now What? by
Linda Beecham (Author) (Paperback -
Jan. 29, 2010)
Ride With Me (feat. Tyght Whyte)
The
Confession
