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• catalog abstract "Publisher's description: One of the most written-about literary figures in the past decade, Arthur Rimbaud left few traces when he abandoned poetry at age twenty-one and disappeared into the African desert. Although the dozen biographies devoted to Rimbaud's life depend on one main source for information--his own correspondence--a complete edition of these remarkable letters has never been published in English. Until now. A moving document of decline, Rimbaud's letters begin with the enthusiastic artistic pronouncements of a fifteen-year-old genius, and end with the bitter what-ifs of a man whose life has slipped disastrously away. But whether soapboxing on the essence of art, or struggling under the yoke of self-imposed exile in the desert of his later years, Rimbaud was incapable of writing an uninteresting sentence. As translator and editor Wyatt Mason makes clear in his engaging Introduction, the letters reveal a Rimbaud very different from our expectations. Rimbaud, presented by many biographers as a bohemian wild man, is unveiled as "diligent in his pursuit of his goals ... wildly, soberly ambitious, in poetry, in everything." I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud is the second and final volume in Mason's authoritative presentation of Rimbaud's writings. Called by Edward Hirsch "the definitive translation for our time" Mason's first volume, Rimbaud Complete (Modern Library, 2002), brought Rimbaud's poetry and prose into vivid focus. In I Promise to Be Good, Mason adds the missing epistolary pieces to our picture of Rimbaud. "These letters" he writes, "are proofs in all their variety--of impudence and precocity, of tenderness and rage--for the existence of Arthur Rimbaud." I Promise to Be Good allows English-language readers to see with new eyes one of the most extraordinary poets in history.".
• catalog alternative "Correspondence. English".
• catalog alternative "Letters of Arthur Rimbaud".
• catalog contributor b13036848.
• catalog contributor b13036849.
• catalog created "2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
• catalog description "I Promise to be good -- Restless in Europe (1870-1875) -- First transit (1876-1878) -- Cyprus (1879-1880) -- Aden (1880) -- Harar (1880-1881) -- Aden Redux (1882-1883) -- Harar Redux (1883-1884) -- Aden again (1884-1885) -- Tadjoura (1885-1886) -- Choa and Cairo (1887) -- Aden Alast (1887-1888) -- Harar once more (1888-1891) -- Final transit (1891) -- At rest (1891).".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-364).".
• catalog description "Publisher's description: One of the most written-about literary figures in the past decade, Arthur Rimbaud left few traces when he abandoned poetry at age twenty-one and disappeared into the African desert. Although the dozen biographies devoted to Rimbaud's life depend on one main source for information--his own correspondence--a complete edition of these remarkable letters has never been published in English. Until now. A moving document of decline, Rimbaud's letters begin with the enthusiastic artistic pronouncements of a fifteen-year-old genius, and end with the bitter what-ifs of a man whose life has slipped disastrously away. But whether soapboxing on the essence of art, or struggling under the yoke of self-imposed exile in the desert of his later years, Rimbaud was incapable of writing an uninteresting sentence. As translator and editor Wyatt Mason makes clear in his engaging Introduction, the letters reveal a Rimbaud very different from our expectations. Rimbaud, presented by many biographers as a bohemian wild man, is unveiled as "diligent in his pursuit of his goals ... wildly, soberly ambitious, in poetry, in everything." I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud is the second and final volume in Mason's authoritative presentation of Rimbaud's writings. Called by Edward Hirsch "the definitive translation for our time" Mason's first volume, Rimbaud Complete (Modern Library, 2002), brought Rimbaud's poetry and prose into vivid focus. In I Promise to Be Good, Mason adds the missing epistolary pieces to our picture of Rimbaud. "These letters" he writes, "are proofs in all their variety--of impudence and precocity, of tenderness and rage--for the existence of Arthur Rimbaud." I Promise to Be Good allows English-language readers to see with new eyes one of the most extraordinary poets in history.".
• catalog extent "xl, 364 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "I promise to be good.".
• catalog identifier "067964301X (hc : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "I promise to be good.".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "2003.".
• catalog language "eng fre".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Modern Library,".
• catalog relation "I promise to be good.".
• catalog subject "841/.8 B 21".
• catalog subject "PQ2387.R5 Z48 2003".
• catalog subject "Poets, French 19th century Correspondence.".
• catalog subject "Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891 Correspondence.".
• catalog subject "Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891 Translations into English.".
• catalog tableOfContents "I Promise to be good -- Restless in Europe (1870-1875) -- First transit (1876-1878) -- Cyprus (1879-1880) -- Aden (1880) -- Harar (1880-1881) -- Aden Redux (1882-1883) -- Harar Redux (1883-1884) -- Aden again (1884-1885) -- Tadjoura (1885-1886) -- Choa and Cairo (1887) -- Aden Alast (1887-1888) -- Harar once more (1888-1891) -- Final transit (1891) -- At rest (1891).".
• catalog title "Correspondence. English".
• catalog title "I promise to be good : the letters of Arthur Rimbaud / translated, edited, and with an introduction by Wyatt Mason.".
• catalog title "Letters of Arthur Rimbaud".
• catalog type "Records and correspondence. fast".
• catalog type "Translations. fast".
• catalog type "text".