Illuminations, and other prose poems / Rimbaud ; translated by Louise Varèse.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891.

Contributor:

• Varèse, Louise, 1890-1989, translator.
• Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

• New Directions paperbook ; no. 56.
• A New Directions paperbook ; no. 56 (1957)

Standardized Title:

• Illuminations English and French 1957

Language:

• English
• French

Subjects (All):

• Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891--Translations into English.
• Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891.
• Prose poems, French--Translations into English.
• Prose poems, French.

Genre:

• Translations.
• Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

• Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-3)

Physical Description:

xxxv, 182 pages ; 18 cm.

Edition:

Revised edition.

Other Title:

Illuminations

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions, 1957.

Language Note:

English and French.

Summary:

Rimbaud, born in 1854, started to write at an early age. By 17 he had written his most famous poem, 'The Drunken Boat'. He then embarked on a turbulent homosexual relationship with the poet Verlaine, from which came some of their most original work, including A Season in Hell and Illuminations. Rimbaud rejected writing at the age of 20. After years of travelling and gun-running in Africa, he died in 1891, aged 37.

Contents:

• Illuminations:
• After the deluge
• Childhood
• Tale
• Side show
• Antique
• Beauteous being
• Lives
• Departure
• Royalty
• To a reason
• Morning of drunkenness
• Phrases
• Working people
• The bridges
• City
• Ruts
• Cities
• Vagabonds
• Vigils
• Mystic
• Dawn
• Flowers
• Common nocturne
• Marine
• Winter Fête
• Anguish
• Metropolitan
• Barbarian
• Promontory
• Scenes
• Historic evening
• Motion
• Bottom
• H
• Devotions
• Democracy
• Fairy
• War
• Genie
• Youth
• Sale
• Other prose poems:
• The deserts of love
• Three gospel moralities.

Notes:

• Publisher's advertisements: [2] p. at end.
• English and French on opposing pages.

Local Notes:

• Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 3 has printed card "Charles Francis and Paula Laurence Bowden happily announce they will be at home after October 11, 1973..." laid in at front.
• Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 3 is ninth printing.

Other Format:

Online version: Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891. Illuminations, and other prose poems.

ISBN:

0811201848 :

OCLC:

6555779