"I know these passions and disasters too well," wrote Arthur Rimbaud in 1873, "the rages, the debauches, the madness." When he wrote those words, the great French poet was living in a house in ...

Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud was born in 1854 to a dour and ... a poem that Robb calls "one of the loveliest descriptions in French poetry of the act of defecation," making one wonder what the ...

The poets are Arthur Rimbaud ... remade art, Rimbaud, then a precocious sixteen-year-old provincial kid, sent his verse to Verlaine, a decade older and a rising, if avant-garde, poet.

It all started with a portrait of the poet Arthur Rimbaud, drawn in 1872 by his fellow ... and drawings by the French poet and playwright Jean Cocteau. But Lot 187, a small brown ink drawing ...