Includes a persuasive chapter on Rimbaud’s imaginative world.

Richter, Mario, La Crise du logos et la quête du mythe (Neuchâtel: La Baconnière, 1976). Contains a detailed reading of three of Rimbaud’s poems.

Ruff, Marcel, Rimbaud (Paris: Hatier, 1968). Sound and scholarly.

St Aubyn, F. C., Arthur Rimbaud (Boston, Mass: G. K. Hall & Co., Twayne World Authors, 1975). A detailed overview, clearly organized.

Steinmetz, Jean-Luc, Le Champ d’écoute (Neuchâtel: La Baconnière, 1985). Contains a chapter in which the concept of Rimbaud’s ‘charity’ is examined.

Reviews, etc. Devoted to Rimbaud Studies

Bulletin des Amis de Rimbaud: 7 numbers, between January 1931 and April 1939.

Le Bateau ivre: 20 numbers, between January 1949 and September 1966.

Études rimbaldiennes: 3 numbers, in 1968, 1970, and 1972.

A. Rimbaud: 4 numbers, in 1972, 1973, 1976, and 1980.

Rimbaud vivant: 27 numbers, between 1973 and 1988.

Circeto: 2 numbers, 1983 and 1984.

Parade sauvage: revue d’études rimbaldiennes (Charleville: Musée-Bibliothèque Arthur Rimbaud). This has appeared regularly since 1984. It also publishes a companion newsletter (Bulletin).

Special Review Numbers

La Grive (October 1954).

Europe (May–June 1973).

Littérature (October 1973).

Revue de l’Université de Bruxelles (1982).

Bérénice, 2 (1981); 5 (1982); 32 (1991).

Revue des Sciences humaines, 193 (1984).

Revue d’Histoire littéraire de la France (March–April 1987).

Background

Chadwick, Charles, Symbolism (London: Methuen, 1971). Short introductory study, with a chapter on Rimbaud.

Hemmings, F. W. J., Culture and Society in France, 1848–1898 (London: Batsford, 1971). Describes the France which Rimbaud knew.

Kahn, Gustave, Symbolistes et décadents (Paris: Vanier, 1902). Includes some pages on Rimbaud.

Lawler, James, The Language of French Symbolism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969). Some pages on Rimbaud, considered in a wider context.

Miller, Christopher L., Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985). Includes a good section on Rimbaud’s time in the Horn of Africa.

Miller, Henry, The Time of the Assassins (Norfolk: New Directions, 1956). One ‘outsider’ on another; the book says more about Miller than Rimbaud.

Murdoch, Iris, ‘The Sickness of the Language’, in Sartre (London: Bowes & Bowes, 1953). A short, intriguing analysis of why the language of some late-nineteenth-century French poets ‘failed’.

Wilson, Edmund, Axel’s Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870–1930 (New York: Scribner’s, 1931). A celebrated, influential book, with an important chapter on Rimbaud.

Further Reading in Oxford World’s Classics

Baudelaire, Charles, Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo, trans. and ed. Rosemary Lloyd.

—— The Flowers of Evil, trans. James McGowan, with an introduction by Jonathan Culver.

Huysmans, Joris-Karl, Against Nature, trans. Margaret Mauldon, ed. Nicholas White.

Six French Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Lamartine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, trans. and ed. E. H.