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Illuminations

by Arthur RIMBAUD (1854 - 1891)

Angoisse

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. (From Wikipedia)

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Age d'or , Bottom , Bruxelles , Chanson de la plus haute tour , Conte , Démocratie , Dévotion , Eternité , Honte , La rivière de cassis roule ignorée , Loin des oiseaux, des troupeaux, des villageoises , Matinée d'ivresse , Michel et Christine , Nocturne vulgaire , Nous somes tes grands-parents , O saisons! ô châteaux! , Ouvriers , Phrases , Qu'est-ce pour nous, mon coeur, que les nappes de sang , Soir historique , Vagabonds , Veillées