A Season in Hell

A Season in Hell
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In this new translation of Arthur Rimbaudâ€”illustrious among the 19th-century symbolists and one of the most influential poets upon the modern mindâ€”Donald Revell captures the child-like wonder and tortured, revelatory despair of these poems, which changed, in so many ways, how we think of what a poem can say and mean. Revellâ€™s choice of a most immediate vernacular gives the modern reader all the heady brilliance in Rimbaudâ€™s rebelliousness. Yet, as Revell explains in his essay â€œOutrageous Innocence, Innocence Outraged,â€ which is offered as afterword in this translation of A Season in Hell, Rimbaudâ€™s rebellious sensuality was redolent with the oracular. Revellâ€™s essay offers the story of Rimbaudâ€”his wildly creative youth, his years of breaking with all traditions of morality and decorum, his fame as the genius of French letters who is identified as one of the creators of free verse because of his rhythm experiments in prose poems. And Revellâ€™s essay places these poems in the larger historical narrative of the literature of rebellious youth that has molded much of our contemporary culture. Published with the French on facing pages, this translation will open many readers to the pleasure of reading this wild child who was remembered after his death as one of the masters of French poetry.
Country USA
Brand Omnidawn
Manufacturer Omnidawn
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781890650308
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Omnidawn
Manufacturer	Omnidawn
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781890650308
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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