French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) is known as much for his legend as his writing. Taking up at age 16 with older fellow poet Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud shocked even the bohemians of Paris with his ...

Obsessing as so many are on the small niceties of American politics—i.e., the final confrontation between the forces of light and darkness on which all of humanity’s future depends—let us spare a ...

Patti Smith, writer and musician extraordinaire, has bought a reconstruction of the childhood home of her lifelong idol, the French poet Arthur Rimbaud. The house is located in Roche, a tiny, quiet ...

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," John Keats had his Grecian Urn proclaim in 1819. Two generations later, across the English Channel, the young Arthur Rimbaud was readjusting truth to beauty within ...

Arthur Rimbaud, one of the most revolutionary poets of 19th-century France, grew up in a small town, Charleville, in the north-east corner of the country near the Belgian border. As a child he'd been ...

Charleville-Mézières, Rimbaud's birthplace, has launched a public funding appeal to acquire a portrait of the poet by his sister Isabelle, recently found in a Parisian bookshop, for a total of 180,000 ...

Du mußt dein Leben ändern. You must change your life, says Rainer Maria Rilke’s Archaic Torso of Apollo (translation by Stephen Mitchell). Not modify your life. Not change your lifestyle. Not take ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter He lived in a squalid loft in a seedy part of town. He was often drunk, drugged and violent. He abused his friends, but relied on ...