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 ...

Arthur Rimbaud was the begetter of modern poetry. For it to come to pass, a Rimbaud was required. It did not have to be A. Rimbaud; it could have been a Rimbaud of some other name, in some other place ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lindens smell fine on fine June nights! Sometimes the air is so sweet that you close your eyes; The wind brings sounds—the town is near— And carries scents of vineyards and beer. . . II. —Over there, ...

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 ...

Stéphane Mallarmé caught a glimpse of Arthur Rimbaud on only one occasion and it was the younger poet’s hands that stuck in his memory. These were, he later wrote, “vast hands, red with sores,” which ...

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 ...