"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 ...

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 ...

Arthur Rimbaud was the begetter of modern poetry. For it to come to pass, a Rimbaud was required. It did not have to be A. Rimbaud; it could have been a Rimbaud of some other name, in some other place ...

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 ...

Blake Draper will star as the sole actor in “A. Rimbaud,” a biopic about French poet Arthur Rimbaud from writer-director Patrick Wang. Draper recently starred in the Disney+ romantic comedy “Prom Pact ...

In 1873, in a hotel room in Brussels, the dastardly boy-poet Arthur Rimbaud was shot in the wrist, half-accidentally, by the outrageously hideous alcoholic man-poet Paul Verlaine. (Verlaine went to ...

In its bucolic setting, the new Arthur Rimbaud Museum may seem a more suitable location to house works and memorabilia from Alphonse de Lamartine, a French contemporary of Romantic poet or John Keats ...

Is the brightest kind of maturity for us, right now at any rate. Reading those lines of Ashbery’s, or ones written much more recently or even earlier, one would never think to say that his tone has ...

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 ...

Seven drawings, sketched in 1865 when Rimbaud was 10, are up for auction. They are valued by auction house Sotheby's at between 100,000 and 150,000 euros. "These exceptional drawings, still privately ...