Enid Starkie

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Enid Mary Starkie (born Killiney, Co Dublin, 1897-1970), was an Irish literary critic, known for her biographical works on French poets. She was a Lecturer and then Reader at Somerville College, Oxford.

She studied at Dublin, Oxford, and the Sorbonne, and taught modern languages at Exeter and Oxford. She wrote perceptively on Baudelaire (1933) and Gide (1954), played a major part in establishing the poetic reputation of Arthur Rimbaud (1938), and published two major volumes on Flaubert (1967, 1971). In 1951 she campaigned successfully to have the quinquennially-elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford be a poet rather than a critic, whereby C. S. Lewis was defeated by Cecil Day-Lewis.

She was honoured as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1967. The academic Walter Starkie was her brother.

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Les sources du lyrisme dans la poésie d'Emile Verhaeren (1927)
Baudelaire (1933)
Arthur Rimbaud in Abyssinia (1937)
A Lady's Child (1941) autobiography
Arthur Rimbaud (1947)
The French Mind: Studies in Honour of Gustave Rudler (1952) editor with Will Moore and Rhoda Sutherland
André Gide (1953)
Petrus Borel: The Lycanthrope (1954)
Three Studies in Modern French Literature (Proust, Gide, Mauriac) (1960) with J. M. Cocking and Martin Jarrett-Kerr
From Gautier to Eliot: 1851-1939 The Influence of France on English Literature (1962)
Flaubert: The Making of the Master (1967)