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| Collected Poems: with parallel French text (Oxford World's Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Arthur Rimbaud
Creator: Martin Sorrell
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 108218
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 344
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 0192833448
Dewey Decimal Number: 841.8
EAN: 9780192833440
ASIN: 0192833448
Publication Date: June 7, 2001
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Competent, but not startling. February 1, 2007
2 out of 12 found this review helpful
One phrase which is used endlessly in literature is 'enfant terrible', and it is a phrase which has often been used to describe Arthur Rimbaud.
I personally don't regard him as a stand-out poet. His poetry contains a lot of vivid imagery, a lot of classical allusions and many other poetic techniques such as alliteration and assonance, but his subject matter is often juvenile. This doesn't surprise me considering he was only a very young man when wrote most of them.
There are moments of incredible beauty, granted, but there are also moments of incredible crudeness, where he desrcibes disgusting bodily functions in even more disgusting vernacular. Such poems were hardly worthy of being published, and definitely not worthy of being hailed as genius.
The publishing industry loves to 'create' heroes, especially if they are from the correct background, which Rimbaud was. Unfortunately, Rimbaud was no hero, he was just a reasonably competent poet who wrote a few decent poems. That's about it.
A thrilling look inside the mind of an insane genius August 3, 2001
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
Rimbaud's poetry is generally dark, and disheartening but when considering the fact that it was all written in his adolescence, its genius is undeniable. His fantastic command of surreal imagery and twisted metaphors is amazing to read, yet the undercurrents of a genius-mind evidently tortured and twisted out of all recognition is as disturbing as it is enthralling. You may well find yourself somewhat regretting and yet still enjoying reading this collection. (Note, even if you have no knowledge of French, READ THE FRENCH! Much of the power of the poetry comes from its rhythm which is lost in translation)
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