[Manuscript:] 'Drunken Boat' [Le Bateau ivre]

Rimbaud (Arthur) & Norman Cameron (Translator)

[Manuscript:] 'Drunken Boat' [Le Bateau ivre]

Description: late draft in pencil on ruled paper with several corrections on p. 3, the sheets a little spotted, pp. 4, folio, sometime folded, the last leaf with a short closed tear at head, with a photograph of the translator (this bearing the small pencil note of collection Jonathan Gili on the verso), good condition

Publication Details: n.d. [circa 1938]

Notes: An earlier version of Cameron's translation, with several differences in each of the 25 stanzas to the versions published in New Verse, June-July 1936, and his 1942 'Selected Verse Poems' of Rimbaud for the Hogarth Press; a comparison, with particular attention to the corrections in stanzas 20 & 21, suggests this is probably an intermediary version. An excellent insight into the work of the translator. Cameron was a Scot, born in India but the family returning to Edinburgh and educated there; he attended Oriel College, Oxford during the 1920s, and was subsequently associated with poets such as...more

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Price: £250

Subject: Modern First Edition

Published Date: 1938]

Stock Number: 69190

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