Further Reading
- Bloom, Harold, ed., Arthur Rimbaud, New York: Chelsea House, 1988, 240 p. (A collection of late twentieth-century essays on Rimbaud and his writings, reprinted from various books and periodicals.)
- Bonnefoy, Yves, "A Season in Hell," in Rimbaud, trans. Paul Schmidt, pp. 82-105, New York: Harper & Row, 1973. (Interprets Une Saison en enfer as a tortured account of Rimbaud's moral and spiritual alienation, depicting the author's struggle to resolve the contradictions of human existence.)
- Cohn, Robert Greer, "Une Saison en enfer," in The Poetry of Rimbaud, pp. 401-38, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973. (Objects to extravagant praise of Rimbaud and Une Saison en enfer, contending it lacks structural coherence and is obsessively self-absorbed, with detailed commentary on important passages.)
- Fowlie, Wallace, "Une Saison en enfer," in Rimbaud, pp. 87-96, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965. (Discusses the poem as a confessional narrative, with the poet ultimately conceding he is not a visionary but an ordinary man.)
- Houston, John Porter, "The Symbolic Structure of Rimbaud's Hell," Modern Language Quarterly XXI, No. 1 (March 1960): 69-72. (Focuses on the symbolic language and formal design of Une Saison en enfer, presenting a unique vision of the state of grace.)
- Houston, John Porter, "Une Saison en enfer and the Dialectics of Damnation," in The Design of Rimbaud's Poetry, pp. 137-200, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963. (Analyzes the theological framework of Une Saison en enfer, arguing Rimbaud rejected Christian dualism for a new ideology.)
- Peschel, Enid Rhodes, "Rimbaud's Life and Work," in A Season in Hell—The Illuminations, by Arthur Rimbaud, trans. Enid Rhodes Peschel, pp. 3-33, New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. (Discusses A Season in Hell in terms of the poet's emotional and spiritual development.)
- St. Aubyn, F. C., "Songs of a Private Hell" and "More Songs of a Private Hell," in Arthur Rimbaud, pp. 73-94 and 95-111, Boston: Twayne, 1975. (Provides a detailed gloss on the text of Une Saison en enfer, noting themes of loss of innocence, Christianity, social justice, and immortality.)
- Wing, Nathaniel, "The Autobiography of Rhetoric: On Reading Rimbaud's Une Saison en enfer," French Forum 9, No. 1 (January 1984): 42-58. (Evaluates Une Saison en enfer as a subversive examination of the relation between literature and reality, highlighting the fruitless search for a "new modernity.")
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