Fowlie, Wallace, 1908-1998
Rimbaud and Jim Morrison : the rebel as poet / Wallace Fowlie - Durham : Duke University Press, 1993, ℗♭1994 - x, 131 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
" ... In "Rimbaud and Jim Morrison" Fowlie, a master of the form of the memoir, reconstructs the lives of the two youthful poets from a personal perspective. In their twinned stories he discovers an uncanny symmetry, a pattern far richer than the simple truth that both led lives full of adventure and both made poetry of their thirst for the liberation of the self. The result is an engaging account of the connections between an exceptional French symbolist who gave up writing poetry at the age of twenty, died young, and whose poems are still avidly read to this day, and an American rock musician whose brief career ignited an entire generation and has continued to fascinate millions around the world in the twenty years since his death in Paris. In this dual portrait, Fowlie gives us a glimpse of the affinities and resemblances between European literary traditions and American rock music and youth culture in the late twentieth century ... --provided by publisher
0822314428 9780822314424 0822314452 9780822314455
93037313
Rock music--History and criticism--United States
Songs, English--History and criticism--United States
American poetry--French influences
Dissenters in literature
PS3563.O8746 / Z66 1994 PS3563.O8746 / Z66 1994
811.54
Rimbaud and Jim Morrison : the rebel as poet / Wallace Fowlie - Durham : Duke University Press, 1993, ℗♭1994 - x, 131 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
" ... In "Rimbaud and Jim Morrison" Fowlie, a master of the form of the memoir, reconstructs the lives of the two youthful poets from a personal perspective. In their twinned stories he discovers an uncanny symmetry, a pattern far richer than the simple truth that both led lives full of adventure and both made poetry of their thirst for the liberation of the self. The result is an engaging account of the connections between an exceptional French symbolist who gave up writing poetry at the age of twenty, died young, and whose poems are still avidly read to this day, and an American rock musician whose brief career ignited an entire generation and has continued to fascinate millions around the world in the twenty years since his death in Paris. In this dual portrait, Fowlie gives us a glimpse of the affinities and resemblances between European literary traditions and American rock music and youth culture in the late twentieth century ... --provided by publisher
0822314428 9780822314424 0822314452 9780822314455
93037313
Rock music--History and criticism--United States
Songs, English--History and criticism--United States
American poetry--French influences
Dissenters in literature
PS3563.O8746 / Z66 1994 PS3563.O8746 / Z66 1994
811.54