Arthur Rimbaud was one of the wildest, most uncompromising poets of his age, although his brief literary career was over by the time he was twenty-one when he embarked on a new life as a trader in Africa.
A master of French verse forms, the young Rimbaud set out to transform his art, and language itself, by a systematic “disordering of all the s.
This edition brings together his extraordinary poetry and more than a hundred of his letters, most of them written after he had abandoned literature.
Arthur Rimbaud was one of the wildest, most uncompromising poets of his age, although his brief literary career was over by the time he was twenty-one when he embarked on a new life as a trader in Africa