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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Translated by Ben Belitt. Includes ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. —Let’s go to the green lindens on the promenade. The lindens smell good on mild June nights! The air so soft that ...

Evelyn Waugh once suggested that the life of Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) is not an adult subject. Rimbaud revolutionized modern poetry before the age of 21 and then abandoned it to wander the globe and ...

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 ...

This study explores the poetic topos of the open-air concert in France during the second half of the nineteenth century. As cultural institutions, various kinds of open-air music were controversial, ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you were wondering what the poem meant, I have no idea,” Patti Smith offered, after reading Rimbaud’s “Genie” on Monday ...