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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the worlds of myth and literature, plenty of figures have had their “lost” years. There are, to name a few, Sherlock Holmes (after the plunge from Reichenbach Falls), the wizard Merlin (was he ...