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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most people's minds, as they enter their sixties, probably turn to thoughts of retirement and a sedate glide along the gentle lower slopes of life's piste. Not so Patti Smith, whose career is ...

RIMBAUD is a splendid and arresting chronicle of one of the 20th century's most important literary figures and a man the list of whose "known crimes is several times longer than the list of poems [he] ...

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 ...

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 ...

A French cannibal who murdered a farmer and cooked his heart and tongue with white beans escaped from a psych ward this week — and brutally attacked a random woman walking her dog, according to ...