Translating Rimbaud's Illuminations

Clive Scott is Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His publications over the last few years include Translating Baudelaire (University of Exeter Press, 2000); Channel Crossings: French and English Poetry in Dialogue 1550-2000 (Legenda, 2002); The Spoken Image: Photography and Language (Reaktion, 1999); The Poetics of French Verse: Studies in Reading (Clarendon, 1998).

Acknowledgements, vi; Introduction, 1; 1 Translation and Creativity: Reflections on a Relationship, 13; 2 The Rimbaldian Prose Poem: Questions of Time and Rhythm, 37; 3 The Voice in Translation I: Translating Subdiscursive Sound, 65; 4 The Voice in Translation II: Moving Images, 94; 5 Silence as Translational Presence: The Translator and Resonant Space, 120; 6 From Silence and Time to Noise and Space, 146; 7 The Translator as Colonist and Native, 176; 8 Rimbaud's City Spaces: Translating the Geometries of Social Architecture, 204; 9 Translating the Space of Reading, 230; Conclusion, 257; Appendix I: Wordsworth's 'The Daffodils' and Francois-Rene Daillie's translation, 265; Appendix II: Plain prose translations of selected Illuminations, 269; Appendix III: Pictorial translations of selected Illuminations, 277; Notes, 297; Bibliography, 313; Index, 323.