Friday, August 5, 2011

"The Pleasures of Rimbaud" by Charles Rosen in NYRB

Reviewing:

 

Illuminationshttp://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thneyoreofbo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0393076350
by Arthur Rimbaud, translated from the French and with a preface by John Ashbery
Norton, 175 pp., $24.95

Poems Under Saturnhttp://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thneyoreofbo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0691144869
by Paul Verlaine, translated from the French and with an introduction by Karl Kirchwey
Princeton University Press, 154 pp., $39.50; $15.95 (paper)

 

 

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/aug/18/pleasures-rimbaud/

 

1 comment:

Tim said...

Unfortunately the Rosen article is not public (open to the) but the bit of Verlaine's letter quoted makes me wonder how much Wilde knew about the Verlaine-Rimbaud affair … well, he must have known near everything about it, which poses for me the question to what extent it he took it as a caution for him and Bosie (to which the answer is, obviously, not enough!).