Arthur Rimbaud: A Biography (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811201971)

Rimbaud--a mythic name--his life as extraordinary as his work was influential in redirecting the course, first of French, and then of world poetry. He is, indeed, the very symbol of what we now call "modern" literature; nearly a hundred years before the arrival of the "mind-expanding" drugs, Rimbaud understood that the borders of the writer's consciousness must be extended and made the deliberate attempt to use hallucination as a creative method.

Dr. Starkie, a lecturer in French literature at Oxford, has devoted many years of research to Rimbaud, revising her biography three times as new manuscript material and information about him has come to light.

Author: Enid Starkie
ISBN-10: 081120197X
ISBN-13: 9780811201971
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1962
Pages: 514
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.18w x 1.37d