Rimbaud, poésie objective

This article reexamines the notion of objective poetry by resituating it in its precise context, then considering it from a broader aesthetic and political perspective. Founded on the hypothesis that the objective depends on a joint requalification of language and action, it places Hugo, Verlaine, and Rimbaud in dialogue in an intertextual exchange which sketches the outline of a poetics of the subject redefined in its conflictual and problematic rapport with society and history.