'Arthur Rimbaud'

Gerald Macklin

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    Abstract

    This piece charts the life and work of Arthur Rimbaud. It follows the poet's life from his childhood in Charleville to his attempted running away from home and on to his time in Paris and his contact with other contemporary poets of the late 19th century. It documents his relationship with the poet Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud's travels in Europe and his eventual move to Ethiopia after abandoning poetry in favour of a commercial career. This "silence de Rimbaud' represents the end of a poetic career that began with the early Poésies, moved on to the Derniers Vers and then finally to the prose poetry of Une Saison en enfer and the Illuminations. The chapter deals with Rimbaud's difficulties with his mother, his celebrated revolt against all conventions and institutions and his dazzling and precocious experimenation in poetry. It deals with individual poems like 'Les Poètes de sept ans', 'L'Eternité', 'Matin' and 'Barbare' and is lavishly illustrtaed with manuscripts, photos, collection covers and drawings. The study assesses Rimbaud's impact and influence on contemporary and subsequent French poetry through his spectacular visionary processes and his linguistic experimentation.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationDictionary of Literary Biography [edited by Robert Beum]
    PublisherGale
    Pages243-257
    Volume217
    ISBN (Print)0-7876-3126-4
    Publication statusPublished (in print/issue) - 2000

    Bibliographical note

    Reference text: E.J.Ahearn Rimbaud:Visions and Habitations, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1983

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    A Kittang Discours et Jeu: Essai d'analyse des textes d'Arthur Rimbaud, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, Bergen and Grenoble, 1975

    P Lapeyre Le Vertige de Rimbaud: Clé d'une perception poétique, Editions de la Baconnière, Neuchâtel, 1981

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    C-E Magny Arthur Rimbaud, Poètes d'aujourd'hui, no. 12, Pierre Seghers, Paris, 1956

    H Miller The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud, J.Laughlin, Norfolk, Conn, 1956

    S Murphy Le Premier Rimbaud ou l'apprentissage de la subversion, Editions du CNRS & Presses Universitaires de Lyon, Paris & Lyon, 1990

    Arthur Rimbaud: Illuminations, ed. N. Osmond, Athlone French Poets, Athlone Press, London, 1976

    P Petitfils Rimbaud, Julliard, Paris, 1982

    J Plessen Promenade et Poésie: L'Expérience de la marche et du mouvement dans l'oeuvre de Rimbaud, Mouton, the Hague & Paris, 1967

    A Py Rimbaud: Illuminations, Droz, Geneva, 1967

    J Reed Delirium: An Interpretation of Arthur Rimbaud , Owen, London, 1991

    J-P Richard 'Rimbaud ou la poésie du devenir ' in Poésie et profondeur, Seuil, Paris, 1955

    K Ross The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune, Theory and History of Literature, vol 60, University of Minnesota press, Minneapolis, 1988

    T Todorov 'Une complication de texte: les Illuminations', POETIQUE, 34, April, 1978, pp. 241-253

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    Keywords

    • biography
    • poetry
    • travel
    • silence

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