Illuminations (poems)

Illuminations (poems)

Arthur Rimbaud's 1886 "Illuminations" (French "Les Illuminations") include some autobiographical allusions to his "voyant" (visionary) period, which began in 1869; but "Illuminations" is neither a confession nor an apology. Its several dozen short prose works and two free-verse poems transcend prose grammar by allowing their words to drift away from their dictionary definitions. Ever-elusive, relentless, overflowing with sinuous cadences, "Illuminations" transcends "Une Saison en Enfer" as it in turn had transcended Rimbaud's early verses. Some scholars even propose that some of the "Illuminations" may have been written after "Une Saison", which supposedly marked his farewell to literature. The English composer Benjamin Britten wrote a song cycle based on these poems.

External links

*http://abardel.free.fr/tout_rimbaud/les_illuminations.htm


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