Felix William Leakey

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Felix William Leakey (* 1922 in Singapore , † December 7, 1999 in Northumberland ) was a British Romance studies and Baudelaire specialist.

life and work

Leakey grew up in Argentina and Morocco, among others. From 1931 to 1934 he attended the Lycée français in Tangier . He studied at Queen Mary, University of London , where he received his doctorate. He taught at the Universities of Sheffield , Glasgow and Reading and was from 1973 until he retired professor of French at Bedford College of London University .

Other works

  • (Ed. With others) The French Renaissance and its heritage. Essays presented to Alan Martin Boase by colleagues, pupils and friends , London 1968
  • Baudelaire and nature , Manchester / New York 1969
  • Sound and sense in French poetry. An inaugural lecture , London 1975 (Bedford College inaugural lecture )
  • (Ed. With James Knowlson) Samuel Beckett , Drunken boat. A translation of Arthur Rimbaud 's poem "Le bateau ivre" , Reading 1976
  • Baudelaire. Collected essays, 1953-1988 , ed. by Eva Jacobs, Cambridge 1990 (preface by Claude Pichois )
  • Baudelaire. Les Fleurs du mal , Cambridge 1992 (book on Les Fleurs du Mal by Baudelaire)
  • (Translator) Selected poems from Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of evil) , Hexham 1994

literature

  • Wendy Mercer in: The Independant January 10, 2000 (obituary, English)
  • Claude Pichois in: Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France 100, 2000, pp. 1259–1260 (obituary, French)

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personal data
SURNAME Leakey, Felix William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leakey, Felix W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Romance studies and Baudelaire specialist
DATE OF BIRTH 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Singapore
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1999
Place of death Northumberland