Six decades ago, David Lean ventured to the sprawling sandstone mountains of Wadi Rum to film the world's most interesting ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Since their first publication in instalments in the magazine La Vogue in 1886, these magical, dynamic poems (written mostly in prose) have fascinated, challenged, compelled and transformed readers.
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 ...