Arthur Rimbaud by Enid Starkie. Norton. $3.37
A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud. Translated by Delmore Schwartz. New Directions. $2.50
Some Poems of Rimbaud translated by Lionel Abel. Exiles’ Press. $0.50
Rimbaud has too often been the pawn of cliques. Symbolists, Catholics, Surrealists, Marxists and homosexuals have all claimed him with equally good reasons. He really belongs to the poets, of whatever school, and to youth. But above all he belongs to the French, as every attempt to translate his work shows.
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