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

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Since his death in a Marseille hospital in 1891, aged 37, the French poet and erstwhile enfant terrible Arthur Rimbaud has been virtually canonised as a pioneer of modernism, revered successively by ...

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 ...

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 ...