Poésies, Une Saison En Enfer, Illuminations

Description

The sumptuous disorder of an exotic passion, the radiance of a meteor, according to Mallarmé; an angel in exile with eyes of a disturbing pale blue, for Verlaine. A 'genial awakening', and that is Le Bateau ivre, a 'perverse and superb puberty', then a young man briefly 'ravaged by literature', the master of an 'intense expression' with unheard-of subjects - all this in a slim volume, due to the poet touched, then deserted, by genius, 'a unique adventure in the history of art'.