Since his death in a Marseille hospital in 1891, aged 37, the French poet and erstwhile enfant terrible Arthur Rimbaud has been virtually canonised as a pioneer of modernism, revered successively by ...

The tragic life of 19th century French poet Arthur Rimbaud, as told by characters that knew him.

Here is a lean, incisive biographical-critical book by one of our outstanding literary commentators. In compelling personal writing, White (Genet: A Biography) shows how one of the heroes of French ...

In 1873, in a hotel room in Brussels, the dastardly boy-poet Arthur Rimbaud was shot in the wrist, half-accidentally, by the outrageously hideous alcoholic man-poet Paul Verlaine. (Verlaine went to ...

Stéphane Mallarmé caught a glimpse of Arthur Rimbaud on only one occasion and it was the younger poet’s hands that stuck in his memory. These were, he later wrote, “vast hands, red with sores,” which ...