Enid Starkie

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Enid Starkie (born August 18, 1897 in Killiney, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown , † April 21, 1970 in Oxford ) was an Irish Romance studies and literary scholar who worked in England as a university teacher.

life and work

Enid Starkie studied in Dublin, Oxford and Paris. There she received her doctorate in 1928 with the work Les sources du lyrisme dans la poésie d'Emile Verhaeren (Paris 1927). She also did her doctorate in Oxford ( Somerville College ) on Arthur Rimbaud in Abyssinia (Oxford 1937, French: Paris 1938) and taught there as a lecturer, later as a reader. She wrote successful books on Charles Baudelaire , Gustave Flaubert and above all Arthur Rimbaud . Her thesis (later withdrawn) that Rimbaud was a slave trader meant that her 1938 Rimbaud book was only published in France in 1982.

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

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

Other works

  • Baudelaire , London 1933, 1957, New York 1958, London 1967
  • Arthur Rimbaud , London 1938, 2nd edition 1947, 3rd edition 1961; 1971 (Penguin Books); (German: Berlin 1938, Hamburg 1948, 1963; Munich 1990 and T. The life of Arthur Rimbaud , newly edited 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 championship , Hamburg / Düsseldorf, 1971
  • Flaubert the master. A critical and biographical study (1856-1880), London 1971

literature

  • Enid Mary Starkie, A lady's child , London 1941 (autobiography)
  • Joanna Richardson, Enid Starkie , London 1973
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography sv

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personal data
SURNAME Starkie, Enid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Starkie, Enid Mary; Starkie, Enid M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish Romance studies and literature scholar who taught in England
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Killiney, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1970
Place of death Oxford