RIMBAUD, ARTHUR

born Oct. 20, 1854, Charleville, France died Nov. 10, 1891, Marseille in full Jean-nicolas-arthur Rimbaud French poet and adventurer who won renown among the Symbolist movement and markedly influenced modern poetry. Additional reading Rimbaud's complete works are collected in Oeuvres, ed. by Suzanne Bernard and Andr Guyaux (1981); English-language editions are Collected Poems, trans. and ed. by Oliver Bernard (1962, reissued 1986), prose translations; and Complete Works, Selected Letters, trans. by Wallace Fowlie (1966, reissued 1977). The best English version of two of his works is A Season in Hell; The Illuminations, trans. by Enid Rhodes Peschel (1973).Enid Starkie, Arthur Rimbaud, new ed. (1961, reprinted 1978); and Pierre Petitfils, Rimbaud, trans. by Alan Sheridan (1987; originally published in French, 1982), are biographies. Critical works include Yves Bonnefoy (ed.), Rimbaud par lui-mme (1961); W.M. Frohock, Rimbaud's Poetic Practice: Image and Theme in the Major Poems (1963); John Porter Houston, The Design of Rimbaud's Poetry (1963, reprinted 1977); Margaret Davies, Une Saison en enfer d'Arthur Rimbaud: analyse du texte (1975); Atle Kittang, Discours et jeu: essai d'analyse des textes d'Arthur Rimbaud (1975); C.A. Hackett, Rimbaud: A Critical Introduction (1981); and James Lawler, Rimbaud's Theatre of the Self (1992). Margaret C. Davies-Mitchell