num_pages: 103
description: Although Arthur Rimbaud stopped writing at the age of 19, he possessed the most revolutionary talent of the century. His poetry &amp; prose have increasingly influenced major writers. To his masterpiece A Season in Hell is here added Rimbaud's longest &amp; possibly greatest single poem The Drunken Boat, with the original French en face Illuminations, Rimbaud's major works are available as bilingual New Directions Paperbooks. The reputation of A Season in Hell, which is a poetic record of a man's examination of his own depths, has steadily increased over the years. Upon the 1st publication of Varese's translation by New Directions, the Saturday Review wrote: "One may at last suggest that the translation of A Season in Hell has reached a conclusive point..." Concerning the 25-stanza The Drunken Boat, Dr Enid Starkie of Oxford University has written: "(It's) an anthology of separate lines of astonishing evocative magic which linger in the mind like isolated jewels." Rimbaud's life was so extraordinary that it has taken on the quality of a myth. A biographical chronology is included.
language: English
title: A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
titlecomplete: A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
characters: Arthur Rimbaud
genres: Classics, France, Philosophy, Fiction, Classic Literature, Literature, French Literature, Poetry, 19th Century, Queer
ratings_count: 8754
publisher: New Directions