Enid Starkie
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Enid Mary Starkie CBE, was an Irish literary critic, known for her biographical works on French poets. She was a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, and Lecturer and then Reader in the University.
Enid Starkie
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles-Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantic
Enid Starkie
…First in 1920. She taught modern languages at Exeter and then in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford. Her biography of Baudelaire (1933) was for many English readers their first introduction to the poet. She wrote perceptively on André Gide (1953), securing him an honorary doctorate…
Baudelaire c. 1862
Portrait of Baudelaire at 23 years old, painted in 1844 by Émile Deroy (1820–1846)
The first edition of Les Fleurs du mal with author's notes
Illustration cover for Les Épaves, by Baudelaire's friend Félicien Rops