biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1897–1970)
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| biography:
| Critic of French literature, born in Killiney, Co Dublin, E Ireland. 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 C Day Lewis. |
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