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spacestationtrustfund's review
4.0
Le désordre somptueux d'une passion exotique, éclat d'un météore, selon Mallarmé ; un ange en exil aux yeux d'un bleu pâle inquiétant, pour Verlaine. Un « éveil génial », et c'est Le Bateau ivre, une « puberté perverse et superbe », puis un jeune homme brièvement « ravagé par la littérature », le maître d'une « expression intense » aux sujets inouïs — tout cela dans un mince volume, dû au poète touché, puis déserté, par le génie, « aventure unique dans l'histoire de l'art ».
nicomarlyse's review
3.0
Une saison en enfer... les poèmes de Rimbaud sont obséndantes—les lamentations d'un amour perdu. I read Une saison en enfer in both French and English. Translation did hinder the sound of Rimbaud's free verse (of course, because it was originally written in French) yet the poem is still beautiful in English. At times I felt repulsed by certain word choices, but the romanticization of colonization could probably be attributed to the time period in which Rimbaud wrote this poem. It does boggle me that he wrote this at, what, 19? His life was filled with intense personal issues for which I feel both disgust and sympathy. Nonetheless, he was extremely talented.
blueyorkie's review
4.0
Of course, it is a great classic, and even if it is not my n° 1 poet, I must admit that he wrote magnificent lines in a minimal time.
Everyone knows his poetic period (concise), but many ignore the adventurer and arms dealer he was after.
He made R M Rilke lie, who said that "to write a single worm you have to have seen many things ..." Rimbaud began by writing and then lived.
Everyone knows his poetic period (concise), but many ignore the adventurer and arms dealer he was after.
He made R M Rilke lie, who said that "to write a single worm you have to have seen many things ..." Rimbaud began by writing and then lived.
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