Enid Starkie

Irish literary critic

Enid Starkie

Enid Starkie

Enid Starkie (1897–1970) was an Irish literary critic and longtime fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. She also wrote biographies of Baudelaire, Andre Gide and Gustave Flaubert.

cover image of the book Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud

Rimbaud––a mythic name––his life as extraordinary as his work was influential in redirecting the course, first of French, and then of world poetry. He is, indeed, the very symbol of what we now call “modern” literature; nearly a hundred years before the arrival of the “mind-expanding” drugs, Rimbaud understood that the borders of the writer’s consciousness must be extended and made the deliberate attempt to use hallucination as a creative method. Dr. Starkie devoted many years of research to Rimbaud, revising her biography three times as new manuscript material and information about him came to light.

More Information
Scroll to Top of Page