Includes index. Indexes of French titles, English titles and first lines.
Contents:
Translator's introduction -- First Season: Childhood -- Prologue -- Ver erat -- It was springtime -- Orphans' New Year -- Blacksmith -- Credo in Unam -- Feelings -- Ophelia -- Hanged men dance -- Kids in a daze -- Tartufe chastised -- First evening -- Romance -- By the bandstand -- Letter -- Second Season: Open Road -- Faun's head -- Sideboard -- Tease -- At the green Cabaret -- Wandering -- Dream in wintertime -- What Nina answered -- Customs men -- Third Season: War -- You dead of ninety-two and ninety-three -- Brilliant victory of Saarbruck -- Evil -- Asleep in the valley -- Angry Caesar -- Hands of Jeanne-Marie -- Parisian orgy -- Crows -- Letters -- Fourth Season: Tormented Heart -- Evening prayer -- Sitters -- Squatting -- Poor people in church -- Venus Anadyomene -- My little lovelies -- Sisters of charity -- Ladies who look for lice -- Seven-year-old poets -- First communions -- Savior bumped upon his heavy butt -- What do we care, my heart -- Stolen heart -- Heart beneath a Cassock -- Letters -- Fifth Season: Visionary -- Drunken boat -- Vowels -- Sun has wept rose -- Rimbaud's contributions to the Album Zutique -- Stupra: three scatological sonnets -- Wastelands of love -- Fragments from the book of John -- O seasons, o chateaus! -- Remembrance -- Tear -- Comedy of thirst -- Hear how it bellows -- Lovely thoughts for morning -- Michael and Christine -- River of cordial -- Triumph of patience -- Newlyweds at home -- Brussels -- Does she dance? -- Triumph of hunger -- Shame -- Childhood -- Tale -- Parade -- Antique -- Being beauteous -- Fairy -- Vigils -- Mystique -- Dawn -- Flowers -- Ordinary nocturne -- Seascape -- Winter festival -- Scenes -- Bottom -- H -- Democracy -- Historic evening -- Letters -- Sixth Season: Damned Soul -- Season in Hell -- Once, if my memory serves me well -- Bad blood -- Night in hell -- First delirium: the foolish virgin -- Second delirium: the alchemy of the word -- Impossible -- Lightning -- Morning -- Farewell -- Seventh Season: Few Belated Cowardices -- After the flood -- Vagabonds -- Lines -- Devotion -- To a reason -- Drunken morning -- Lives -- Departure -- Royalty -- Workers -- Bridges -- City -- Wheel ruts -- Promontory -- Cities 1 -- Cities 2 -- Metropolitan -- Anguish -- Barbarian -- War -- Movement -- Sale -- Genie -- Youth -- Letters -- Eighth Season: Man With The Wind At His Heels -- Letters -- Index of English titles -- Index of French titles -- Index of first lines.
Summary:
One of the world's most influential poets, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings, almost all of which he produced before the age of twenty. Paul Schmidt's acclaimed collection brings together his complete poetry, prose, and letters, including "The Drunken Boat," "The Orphans' New Year," "After the Flood," and "A Season in Hell." Complete Works is divided into eight "seasons"--Childhood, the Open Road, War, the Tormented Heart, the Visionary, the Damned Soul, a Few Belated Cowardices, and the Man with the Wind at His Heels-that reflect the facets of Rimbaud's life. Insightful commentary by Schmidt reveals the courage, vision, and imagination of Rimbaud's poetry and sheds light on one of the most enigmatic figures in letters
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