3 The exact nature of the illness that led to Rimbaud’s death is a subject that keeps biographers busy. Like the exact state of Van Gogh’s mental health, everyone has a theory.
4 Ezra Pound’s poetical ideas and ideals are dispersed through many of his works. Readers could profitably consult both An ABC of Reading and Confucius to Cummings. Also, there is always The Cantos, Pound’s own poem with history.
5 More of Baudelaire’s essay may be read in The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays, well translated and edited by Jonathan Mayne. The quote used here can be found on page 12.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
FRENCH EDITIONS OF RIMBAUD’S WORKS
Œuvres complètes. De Renéville and Mouquet, eds. Gallimard, Pléiade, 1954.
Œuvres complètes. Antoine Adam, ed. Gallimard, Pléiade, 1972.
Œuvre/vie. Alain Borer, ed. Arléa, 1991.
Œuvres complètes. Pierre Brunel, ed. Livre de Poche, 1999.
Œuvres complètes, I: Poésies. Steve Murphy, ed. Honoré Champion, 1999.
Œuvres complètes, IV: Fac-similies. Steve Murphy, ed. Honoré Champion, 2002.
ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF RIMBAUD’S WORKS
Collected Poems. Oliver Bernard, tr. Penguin, 1962. Complete Works, Selected Letters. Wallace Fowlie, tr. Chicago, 1966.
Complete Works. Paul Schmidt, tr. Harper & Row, 1976.
Rimbaud: The Works. Dennis J. Carlile, tr. Xlibris, 2000.
Collected Poems. Martin Sorrell, tr. Oxford University Press, 2001.
Rimbaud Complete. Wyatt Mason, tr. Modern Library, 2002.
ON RIMBAUD’S POETRY AND LIFE
A Concordance to the Œuvres complètes of Arthur Rimbaud. William Carter and
Robert Vines, eds. Ohio University Press, 1978.
Berrichon, Paterne. Arthur Rimbaud, Poète. Mercure de France, 1912.
Cohn, Robert Greer. The Poetry of Rimbaud. University of South Carolina Press, 1999.
Delahaye, Ernest. Delahaye témoin de Rimbaud. Baconnière, 1974.
Izambard, Georges. Rimbaud tel que je l’ai connu. Le passeur, 1991.
Jeancolas, Claude. Les lettres manuscrites de Rimbaud. Textuel, 1997.
Lefrère, Jean-Jacques. Arthur Rimbaud. Fayard, 2001.
Lefrère, Jean-Jacques, et al. Rimbaud à Aden. Fayard, 2001.
———. Rimbaud à Harar. Fayard, 2002.
Robb, Graham. Rimbaud. Norton, 2000.
Starkie, Enid. Rimbaud. Norton, 1947.
Steinmetz, Jean-Luc. Une Question de presence. Tallandier, 1999.
ON SUBJECTS RELATING TO TRANSLATION
Baudelaire, Charles. Les Fleurs du Mal. Richard Howard, tr. Godine, 1980.
———. The Painter of Modern Life. Jonathan Mayne, tr. Da Capo Press, 1964.
Borges, Jorge Luis. This Craft of Verse. Harvard, 2000.
Craft and Context of Translation. William Arrowsmith and Roger Shattuck, eds. University of Texas Press, 1961.
Davenport, Guy. Seven Greeks. New Directions, 1995.
Gass, William. Reading Rilke. Ecco, 2000.
Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry. Paul Auster, ed. Random House, 1981.
Rilke, Rainer Maria. Selected Poetry. Stephen Mitchell, tr. Vintage, 1983.
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