Rimbaud is best known for his collection of prose poems, Illuminations (1886), and a long poem written in prose and verse, A Season in Hell (1873). Sponsored Here's something you might be ...

Prose poems were not new in 1872 when Rimbaud began Illuminations. The form was invented in 1842 by Aloysius Bertrand with the flashing vignettes of Gaspard de la nuit .

RIMBAUD is a splendid and arresting chronicle of one of the 20th century's most important literary figures and a man the list of whose "known crimes is several times longer than the list of poems ...

Still, some teachers slipped some Rimbaud poems into the classroom, Ms. Rozoy said, recalling that the poet’s “rebellion spoke to me.” Not until 1969 was a museum devoted to him opened in ...

Rimbaud’s last known poems predate his 22nd birthday. By the time of his death, he had travelled over most of Europe and had earned a reputation as a coffee trader in the Middle East and Africa.

It’s a pity that Jeremy Harding (LRB, 9 October) did not pick up on Mark Treharne’s superlative 1998 translations of Rimbaud’s Illuminations and Saison en enfer.Treharne would have proved useful, too, ...

Here too is Le Reliquaire, an edition of Rimbaud’s poems seized by the police within a day of his death. The poems and letters are just a few of the 350 objects. There are also masterpieces by ...

Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) was an anti-establishment, anti-war rebel who wrote the bulk of his dazzling Symbolist poetry as a teenager, then dramatically renounced literature in favour of a vagabond ...

Legendary French poet Arthur Rimbaud did so at ... 2010 at Sotheby's in Paris shows collections of poems prior to ... t took a savant—the likes of English poet T. S. Eliot—to predict the ...

Jessica Herzfeld's art show is inspired by Arthur Rimbaud, ... French poet renowned for his libertine spirit, iconoclast attitude and groundbreaking works such as his 1873 extended poem, ...