Fleeing the Mother Tongue
Jeremy Harding: Rimbaud, 9 October 2003
Rimbaud Complete
edited by Wyatt Mason.
Scribner, 656 pp., £20, November 2003,0 7432 3950 4 Show More
edited by Wyatt Mason.
Scribner, 656 pp., £20, November 2003,
Collected Poems
by Arthur Rimbaud, edited by Martin Sorrell.
Oxford, 337 pp., £8.99, June 2001,0 19 283344 8 Show More
by Arthur Rimbaud, edited by Martin Sorrell.
Oxford, 337 pp., £8.99, June 2001,
Arthur Rimbaud: Presence of an Enigma
by Jean-Luc Steinmetz, edited by Jon Graham.
Welcome Rain, 464 pp., $20, May 2002,1 56649 251 3 Show More
by Jean-Luc Steinmetz, edited by Jon Graham.
Welcome Rain, 464 pp., $20, May 2002,
“... for the plural of fil, ‘thread’. It is in fact a complex imaginative reading. According to Jean-Luc Steinmetz in his fine edition of Rimbaud (Flammarion, 1989), these threads are the drifting lines on which young spiders hang in the air in order to migrate, and which the French call ‘fils de la Vierge’ – ‘Our Lady’s threads’. In the ... ”
