Delirium
Jeremy Harding: Arthur Rimbaud, 30 July 1998
Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa 1880-91
by Charles Nicholl.
Vintage, 336 pp., £7.99, May 1998,0 09 976771 6 Show More
by Charles Nicholl.
Vintage, 336 pp., £7.99, May 1998,
A Season in Hell and Illuminations
by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Mark Treharne.
Dent, 167 pp., £18.99, June 1998,0 460 87958 8 Show More
by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Mark Treharne.
Dent, 167 pp., £18.99, June 1998,
“... and a ‘hyper-aestheticised imagination’. Rickword likes the political poems. So does Frank Jellinek, who said in 1934 that they were ‘more valuable than his presence [in Paris] could have been’. But these poems ought to pose more of a problem than they have for Rimbaud’s admirers on the left. ‘L’Orgie Parisienne’ casts the insurgent ... ”