The Poetry of Rimbaud - Softcover

Cohn, Robert Greer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570033323 ISBN 13: 9781570033322

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, 1999

Synopsis

In this proven study on Arthur Rimbaud, the world's leading authority on Stéphane Mallarmé provides a guide to the understanding and appreciation of Rimbaud's entire poetic oeuvre. Robert Greer Cohn begins with an outline of the poet's life, focusing particularly on a childhood and adolescence that produced astoundingly original and frequently exquisite works, the whole body of poetry by a writer who ended his literary creation in his twentieth year. Cohn's analysis, combined with a substantial introduction, weaves together the known biographical facts with major clues from the poems to present a coherent portrait of the inner and outwardly imaged world of the young poet. Cohn draws on nondoctrinaire and open-minded approaches of modern depth psychology and philosophy and, most particularly, on the dazzlingly integral cosmic vision of Mallarmé

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About the Author

Robert Greer Cohn is best known for his lifetime work on Mallarmé. The founding editor of Yale French Studies and author of fifteen books of literary criticism, Cohn is a two-time Guggenheim fellow and professor emeritus of French at Stanford University in Stanford, California.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570033323
• ISBN 13: 9781570033322
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 460