Illuminations (poetry collection) Illuminations (poetry collection) Illuminations is an uncompleted suite of prose poems by the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, first published partially in "", a Paris literary review, in May–June 1886. The texts were reprinted in book form in October 1886 by Les publications de La Vogue under the title "Les Illuminations" proposed by the poet Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud's former lover. In his preface, Verlaine explained that the title was based on the English word "illuminations", in the sense of coloured plates, and a sub-title that Rimbaud had already given the work. Verlaine dated its composition between 1873 and 1875. Rimbaud wrote
Hilarius (poet) contained in a cartulary of Ronceray, is also ascribed to the poet, who there calls himself "Hilarius Canonicus". The poem is printed in the Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes (vol. xxxvu. 1876), and was dated by Paul Marchegay from 1121. Hilarius (poet) Hilarius (fl. 1125) was a Latin poet who is supposed to have been an Englishman. He was one of the pupils of Pierre Abélard at his oratory of the Paraclete, and addressed to him a copy of verses with its refrain in the vulgar tongue, "Tort avers vos li mestre", Abelard having threatened to discontinue his teaching because