Benjamin Britten’s 1939 setting of Les Illuminations reworks Rimbaud’s poetry by creating certain « transpositions » of prosody, form, sound properties, and word-painting. The contention here is that these « transpositions » stem from a process that is inherent to the poetic text itself.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
