Cloth: 978-0-226-71976-4 | Paper: 978-0-226-71977-1 | Electronic: 978-0-226-71978-8
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226719788.001.0001
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The first translation of the poet's complete works when it was published in 1966, Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters introduced a new generation of Americans to the alienated genius—among them the Doors's lead singer Jim Morrison, who wrote to translator Wallace Fowlie to thank him for rendering the poems accessible to those who "don't read French that easily." Forty years later, the book remains the only side-by-side bilingual edition of Rimbaud's complete poetic works.
Thoroughly revising Fowlie's edition, Seth Whidden has made changes on virtually every page, correcting errors, reordering poems, adding previously omitted versions of poems and some letters, and updating the text to reflect current scholarship; left in place are Fowlie's literal and respectful translations of Rimbaud's complex and nontraditional verse. Whidden also provides a foreword that considers the heritage of Fowlie's edition and adds a bibliography that acknowledges relevant books that have appeared since the original publication. On its fortieth anniversary, Rimbaud remains the most authoritative—and now, completely up-to-date—edition of the young master's entire poetic ouvre.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Illustrations
Foreword (2005)
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Introduction (1966)
Poésies/Poetry
Les étrennes des orphelins
The Orphans' Gifts
Soleil et chair
Sun and Flesh
Ophélie
Ophelia
Venus Anadyomène
Venus Anadyomene
Première soirée
The First Evening
Les reparties de Nina
Nina's Replies
Les effarés
The Frightened Ones
Roman
Novel
Le buffet
The Cupboard
La maline
The Sly Girl
Le dormeur du val
The Sleeper in the Valley
À la musique
To Music
Bal des pendus
Dance of the Hanged Men
Le forgeron
The Blacksmith
Ma bohème
My Bohemian Life
Le mal
Evil
Rages de Césars
Caesars' Rages
Chant de guerre parisien
Parisian War Song
Mes petites amoureuses
My Little Lovers
Accroupissements
Squattings
Les poètes de sept ans
Seven-year-old Poets
L'orgie parisienne ou Paris se repeuple
Parisian Orgy or Paris is Repopulated7
Les pauvres à l'église
The Poor in Church
Les soeurs de charité
Sisters of Charity
L'homme juste
The Just Man
Les premières Communions
First Communions
Ce qu'on dit au Poète à propos de fleurs
What is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers
Les mains de Jeanne-Marie
The Hands of Jeanne-Marie
Les assis
The Seated Men
Le bateau ivre
The Drunken Boat
Les chercheuses de poux
The Seekers of Lice
Les douaniers
The Customs Men
Tête de faune
Faun's Head
Voyelles
Vowels
Vu à Rome
Seen in Rome
Fête galante
Love Feast
Conneries
Nasty Jokes
Conneries 2e Série
Nasty Jokes 2nd Series
Le balai
The Brush
L'angelot maudit
The Outcast Cherub
Bouts-rimés
Rhymed endings
Hypotyposes saturniennes, ex Belmontet
Saturnian Hypotyposes, taken from Belmontet
Les remembrances du vieillard idiot
Memories of the Simple-minded Old Man
Ressouvenir
Remembrance
Vers pour les lieux
Verses for Such Places
Comédie de la soif
Comedy of Thirst
Bonne pensée du matin
A Good Thought in the Morning
La rivière de Cassis
The Cassis River
Patience
Patience
Jeune ménage
Young Couple
Fêtes de la faim
Feasts of Hunger
Les corbeaux
The Crows
Honte
Shame
Mémoire
Memory
Michel et Christine
Michel and Christine
O saisons, ô châteaux
O seasons, o castles
Plates-bandes d’amarantes
Flowerbands of amaranths
Qu’est-ce pour nous, mon coeur
What does it matter for us, my heart
Proses/Prose
Le soleil était encore chaud
The sun was still hot
Charles d'Orléans à Louis XI31
Charles d'Orléans to Louis XI
Un coeur sous une soutane: Intimités d¡¯un séminariste
A Heart under a Cassock: Confidences of a Seminarian
Les déserts de l'amour
Deserts of Love
Proses dites "évangeliques"
Prose called "evangelical"
Mauvais sang
Bad Blood
Nuit de l'enfer
Night in Hell
Délires
Delirium
Délires
Delirium
L'impossible
The Impossible
L'éclair
Lightning
Matin
Morning
Adieu
Farewell
Enfance
Childhood
Conte
Story
Parade
Circus
Being Beauteous
Being Beauteous
Vies
Lives
Matinée d¡¯ivresse
Morning of Drunkenness
Phrases
Phrases
Ouvriers
Workers
Ornières
Ruts
Villes
Cities
Villes
Cities
Veillées
Vigils
Aube
Dawn
Nocturne vulgaire
Daily Nocturne
Angoisse
Agony
Barbare
Barbarian
Promontoire
Promontory
Soir historique
Historic Evening
Mouvement
Motion
Dévotion
Devotions
Guerre
War
Génie
Genie
Jeunesse
Youth
Solde
Sale
Correspondance/Selected Letters
To Théodore de Banville
To Georges Izambard
À Georges Izambard
To Georges Izambard
À Georges Izambard
To Georges Izambard
À Georges Izambard
To Georges Izambard
À Paul Demeny
To Paul Demeny
À Paul Demeny
To Paul Demeny
À Théodore de Banville
À Paul Demeny
To Paul Demeny
À Ernest Delahaye
To Ernest Delahaye
À Ernest Delahaye
To Ernest Delahaye
À Verlaine
To Verlaine
À Verlaine
Aux siens
To his family
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To his family
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To his family
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Aux siens
To his family
To his family
Aux siens
To his family
Aux siens
To his family
À sa mère et à sa soeur
To his mother and sister
Aux siens
To his family
Aux siens
To his family
Aux siens
To his family
Aux siens
To his family
Aux siens
To his family
Aux siens
To his family
À sa mère
To his mother
À sa mère
To his mother
À sa mère et à sa soeur
À sa soeur
To his sister
To the Director of the Messageries Maritimes
Notes
Index of Titles and First Lines