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 ...

Godlike,” by the seminal punk musician Richard Hell, transposes a notorious affair between nineteenth-century French poets to nineteen-seventies New York.

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 ...

I don’t drink tea, but I can sit on my balcony and read Rimbaud while drinking coffee, ala Patti-style. I’m inspired, so I give it a try. Amy L. Alley is a mother, author, artist, and Special ...

In the worlds of myth and literature, plenty of figures have had their “lost” years. There are, to name a few, Sherlock Holmes (after the plunge from Reichenbach Falls), the wizard Merlin (was he ...

President decides against relocating remains of French poet to Parisian memorial The remains of the famed French poet Arthur Rimbaud will not be moved to the Panthéon mausoleum despite a campaign 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 ...

The staggering price for the 7mm six-shooter -- which almost changed the course of world literature -- was more than seven times the estimate, auctioneers Christie's said. Verlaine's gun Verlaine ...