"This is the fullest and fairest of the half-dozen books on Rimbaud in English. No single volume so complete exists even in French."--Roger Shattuck (The New Yo

Professor Hackett shows Rimbaud's poetic work had decisive influence on the development of French poetry.

The enfant terrible of French letters, Jean-Nicholas-Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) was a defiant and precocious youth who wrote some of the most remarkable prose and

In a new interpretation of a poet who has swayed the course of modern poetry--in France and elsewhere--James Lawler focuses on what he demonstrates is the crux

"I have little doubt Jim Morrison would be both flattered by and proud of Wallace Fowlie's analytic literary analysis of his poetry and lyrics. It was a 19-year