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, ...
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 ...
He may have lived over a hundred years ago, but French poet Arthur Rimbaud stills speaks to young people in the Internet era. A new Paris show, Rimbaudmania, reveals his influence on poets and ...
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 ...
t took a savant—the likes of English poet T. S. Eliot—to predict the wastelands that would emerge in the modern world we know today. But it took a true visionary, a determined one, to prophesize his ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Good luck trying to identity the first rebel artist. Yes, there was probably some wild outsider who drew confrontational sketches on caves that shocked the community 28,000 years ...
In the opening paragraph of Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop, we are told that the middlebrow novelist and literary hack John Boot began his career “with a life of Rimbaud written when he was 18”. The joke is ...
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Some of the missives addressed to Arthur Rimbaud contain declarations of undying love for the prodigious enfant terrible of French letters, who passed away at 37 after a rollercoaster life that ...
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 ...