TS: "The Marriage of Heaven & Hell" vs. "Une Saison en enfer"

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Sure, Blake's came first, way first, but Rimbaud's achieved, perhaps, a more crucial break from the Gallic tradition (and at an astonishingly younger age) than Blake's mock-Alexendrian verses. I'd still pick "The Marriage," though, since I "get" more out of his philosophical aphorisms than I do Rimbaud's anti-rational discursivity. What might others think?

― hop frog, Saturday, 21 January 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

have only read the blake

so, the blake

sorry

― tom west (thomp), Saturday, 21 January 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Illuminations

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Saturday, 21 January 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

I've barely read either, but I'd generally give the nod to Blake.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 21 January 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

rimbaud by a light-year!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 22 January 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

This thread is going to be nothing but a shouting match until someone actually sits down and reads both texts. But I'm not volunteering for that.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 22 January 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

well, i've read both, but i admit i don't remember the blake nearly as well - my favorite blake stuff is mostly in "songs of experience," and i find a lot of his longer, rantier stuff to be kind of unreadable. but i should give it another shot.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 22 January 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

I prefer Blake's 'Songs of Innocence and Experience' to 'TMofHaH' but I have to go with 'Une Saison en Enfer' here if only for sentimental reasons. I have been scrawling 'Un soir, j'ai assis la Beauté sur mes genoux. - Et je l'ai trouvée amère. - Et je l'ai injuriée,' on restroom walls for over two decades now.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 23 January 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

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