Enid Starkie

Enid Starkie ( born August 18, 1897 in Killiney, Dun Laoghaire - Rathdown, † April 21, 1970 in Oxford) was an Irish Romance languages ​​and literature scientist who worked as a high school teacher in England.

Life and work

Enid Starkie studied in Dublin, Oxford and Paris. She did her doctorate in 1928 with the work of Les sources du dans la poésie d' Lyrisme Emile Verhaeren (Paris 1927). She earned her doctorate at Oxford in addition about Arthur Rimbaud in Abyssinia (Oxford 1937 French: Paris 1938) and taught there as a lecturer and later as a Reader. She wrote successful books about Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, and especially Arthur Rimbaud. Your (later withdrawn ) thesis, Rimbaud had been slavers, led to her Rimbaud book from 1938 published in France until 1982.

Enid Starkie was an officer of the Legion of Honour (1958) and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE ) ( 1967).

Enid Starkie was the sister of Walter Starkie Hispanists ( 1894-1976 ).

Other works

• Baudelaire, London 1933, 1957, 1958 New York, London 1967
• Arthur Rimbaud, London 1938, 2nd edition 1947, 3rd edition 1961; 1971 ( Penguin Books ); ( German: Berlin 1938, Hamburg 1948, 1963; Munich 1990 ud T. The Life of Arthur Rimbaud, new ed by Susanne Wäckerle; French. translated and edited by Alain Borer, Paris 1982, 1989. )
• Petrus Borel en Algérie, Oxford, 1950 ( 47 pages )
• André Gide, Cambridge 1953, Newhaven, 1954 ( 63 pages )
• Arthur Rimbaud 1854-1954, Oxford 1954 (The Zaharoff Lecture for 1954)
• Petrus Borel the lycanthrope. His life and times, London 1954
• From Gautier to Eliot. The influence of France on English literature 1851-1939, London 1960, 1962
• Flaubert. The making of the master, London, New York 1967, London 1971, ( French Flaubert Jeunesse et maturité, Paris 1967, 1970. ) German: Gustave Flaubert. Childhood, apprenticeship, early mastery, Hamburg / Dusseldorf, 1971
• Flaubert the master. A critical and biographical study (1856-1880), London 1971