Is the brightest kind of maturity for us, right now at any rate. Reading those lines of Ashbery’s, or ones written much more recently or even earlier, one would never think to say that his tone has ...

Since their first publication in instalments in the magazine La Vogue in 1886, these magical, dynamic poems (written mostly in prose) have fascinated, challenged, compelled and transformed readers.

Arthur Rimbaud was a 19th century poet who died at the young age of 37, yet in his short life, he left an undeniable mark on the literary world, and was likened by none other than Victor Hugo to an ...

In the opening paragraph of Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop, we are told that the middlebrow novelist and literary hack John Boot began his career “with a life of Rimbaud written when he was 18”. The joke is ...

you hold fast with your teeth. You are the songfast pennant. Every myth has its origins. Before passing into the hands of curators such as Paul Verlaine, Paul Claudel, and Miller, the myth of Rimbaud ...

POETRY SPECIAL: In the Light of (after Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations). By Ciaran Carson. Gallery Press, €11.95 paperback, €18.50 hardback John Ashbery calls Arthur Rimbaud’s Génie one of the greatest ...