Wystan Hugh Auden «Rimbaud»
Rimbaud The nights, the railway-arches, the bad sky, His horrible companions did not know it; But in that child the rhetorician’s lie Burst like a pipe: the cold had made a poet. Drinks bought him by his weak and lyric friend His senses systematically deranged, To all accustomed nonsense put an end; Till he from lyre and weakness was estranged. Verse was a special illness of the ear; Integrity was not enough; that seemed The hell of childhood: he must try again. Now, galloping through Africa, he dreamed Of a new self, the son, the engineer, His truth acceptable to … Читать далее →