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The modernist masterpiece that is Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations has been given new life with the publication of John Ashbery's "dazzling" (The Economist) new translation, widely hailed as one of the literary events of the year. Presented with French text in parallel and a preface... Read Full Overview

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the French by Daniel Sloate. This edition of Rimbaud's masterpiece marks the first translation of ILLUMINATIONS that has been praised for its exquisite interpretation, particularly by American translators. Translator and poet Daniel... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

First published in 1886, Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations ?the work of a poet who had abandoned poetry before the age of twenty-one?changed the language of poetry. Hallucinatory and feverishly hermetic, it is an acknowledged masterpiece of world literature, still unrivaled for... Read Full Overview

This uncompleted suite of poems by French poet Arthur Rimbaud was first published serially in the Paris literary review magazine "La Vogue." The magazine published part of "Illuminations" from May to June 1886. Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud's lover, suggested the publication of these... Read Full Overview

Ce recueil compte une cinquantaine de po?mes en prose et 4 po?mes en vers non rim?s, qui passent pour ?tre les premiers vers libres de la litt?rature fran?aise. On peut comprendre le titre Illuminations dans le sens anglais de enluminures: il s'agit en effet de petits tableaux... Read Full Overview