"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 ...

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.

Painted gold, the metal box displays a portrait of the 19th Century poet Arthur Rimbaud, who is buried here at Charleville. The postbox was installed because people write to him. Even now. The French ...

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 ...

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 today's Rendezvous, Cicely Fell explores the enduring myth of Arthur Rimbaud and finds out how his poetry is being brought off the bookshelves and into people's lives. The Rimbaudmania exhibition ...

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 ...