CHARLEVILLE-MÉZIÈRES, France — When Bernard Colin took over as caretaker of this city’s cemetery 27 years ago, his predecessor gave him some remarkably non-prescient advice: “Don’t worry, you won’t be ...

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Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. —Let’s go to the green lindens on the promenade. The lindens smell good on mild June nights! The air so soft that ...

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 ...

As a wild, drug-taking teen in the 1870s, Rimbaud helped engender modern poetry. This dizzying, brilliant, blasphemous last book of mostly prose poems explores his angers, gratitudes and regrets about ...

Love Story The penalty for desertion is death by a firing squad. I’m saving you this trouble enclosed is a pistol. loaded with only one bullet. squeeze the trigger ...

you hold fast with your teeth. You are the songfast pennant. Every myth has its origins. Before passing into the hands of curators such as Paul Verlaine, Paul Claudel, and Miller, the myth of Rimbaud ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. "Genius is the recovery of childhood at will," this is a famous quote by ...