Illuminations / Rimbaud ; translated with a preface by John Ashbery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891, author.

Contributor:

Ashbery, John, 1927-2017, translator, writer of preface.

Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017, former owner.

W.W. Norton & Company, publisher.

Harry Mathews Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Illuminations. English & French

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

French poetry--19th century--Translations into English.

French poetry.

French poetry--Translations into English--19th century.

Bilingual books--English-French.

Genre:

French poetry.

French language materials.

Poetry.

Translations.

Penn Provenance:

Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017 (inscription) (Mathews copy)

Chaix, Marie, 1942- (inscription) (Mathews copy)

Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 (autograph, 5/17/2011) (Mathews copy)

Physical Description:

175 pages, 1 unnumbered page : portrait ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, 2011.

Language Note:

French with facing page English translations.

Summary:

"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 its haunting blend of sensuous detail and otherworldly astonishment. In Ashbery's translation of this notoriously elusive text, the acclaimed poet and translator lends his inimitable voice to a venerated classic"--Dust jacket flap.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Harry Mathews Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Harry Mathews.

Mathews Collection copy has inscription: "pour marie et Harry gios bisous (bisoux?) John. La Lunchonette le 17 mai 2011. 'For today's tourist, orientation is impossible.' --p.89". Dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

9780393076356

0393076350

9780393341829

0393341828

9780393081848

0393081842

OCLC:

668194796