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,
“... air above it seems briefly to stand for the task they are performing. But what is that something? Martin Sorrell, whose translations are often less free than Mason’s, and never less impressive, takes a bolder turn: Madame holds herself too stiff in the next field where sons of toil flurry like snow; clutching parasol; trampling umbels; too proud for ... ”
