What are the Illuminations? Originally an untitled, unpaginated bunch of manuscript pages that Arthur Rimbaud handed to his former lover Paul Verlaine on the occasion of their last meeting, in Stuttgart in 1875.
–John Ashbery
Paul Verlaine was born on March 30, 1844.
John Ashbery translated four poems from Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations in the April 2011 issue of Poetry.