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 ...

"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 ...

At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, “Persona: Photography and the Re-Imagined Self” maps the evolving language of performance, photography, and identity. A suite of exhibitions at the Isabella ...

The poet Arthur Rimbaud was born in Charleville-Mézières, in eastern France, on 20 October 1854. To give his poetry a new spark of life, the town created a Rimbaud City Trail made of 11 murals.

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 ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) was an anti-establishment, anti-war rebel who wrote the bulk of his dazzling Symbolist ...

Ten French ex-culture ministers back calls to inter poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine in the Pantheon in Paris but opponents say Henry Samuel has been The Telegraph’s Paris Correspondent since ...