About
Wallace Fowlie:
Wallace Fowlie (1908–1998) was an American writer and professor of
literature. He was the
James B. Duke Professor of French Literature at
Duke University from
1964. Known for his translations of the poet
Arthur Rimbaud and his critical studies of
French poetry and drama, he also wrote about rock-poet
Jim Morrison. Perhaps his most enduring legacy,
however, is the product of six decades of teaching at universities in the United
States, including Yale, Bennington, Holy Cross, U. Colorado-Boulder, and Duke.
Devoted to teaching, particularly undergraduate courses in French, Italian, and
modernist literature, Fowlie influenced several generations of American college
students.
Fowlie received a
John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation fellowship in 1947.
[1]
Fowlie corresponded with literary figures such as
Henry Miller,
René Char,
Jean Cocteau,
André Gide,
Alexis Léger (
Saint-John Perse),
Marianne Moore, and
Anaïs Nin.
[2] His
translations of Rimbaud were appreciated by a younger generation that included
Jim Morrison and
Patti
Smith.
[3] In 1990, Fowlie
consulted with director
Oliver
Stone on the film
The Doors.
[2]
Works
- Age of Surrealism (1950)
- André Gide: His Life and Art (1965)
- Aubade: A Teacher's Notebook (1983) ISBN 0-8223-0566-6
- Characters from Proust: Poems (1983) ISBN 0-8071-1071-X
- Claudel (Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought)
(1957)
- Climate of Violence: The French Literary Tradition from Baudelaire to the
Present (1967)
- Clowns And Angels: Studies In Modern French Literature (1943)
- The Clown's Grail: A Study of Love in Its Literary Expression
(1947)
- De Villon à Péguy (Editions de l'Arbre, Montreal, 1944)
- Dionysus in Paris: A Guide to Contemporary French Theater (1960)
- Ernest Psichari (Ernest Green & Co., New York, Toronto,
1939)
- From Chartered Land (William R Scott, New York, 1938)
- Jean Cocteau: The History of a Poet's Age (1966)
- Journal of Rehearsals: A Memoir (1997) ISBN 0-8223-1945-4
- Intervalles (A. Magne, Paris, 1939, published under pen name Michel
Wallace)
- La Pureté dans l'Art (Editions de l'Arbre, Montreal, 1941)
- Letters of Henry Miller and Wallace Fowlie (1975)
- Mallarmé (Dennis Dobson, London; University of Chicago, Chicago,
1953)
- Matines et Vers (Paris, 1936; published under pen name Michel
Wallace)
- Memory: A Fourth Memoir (1990) ISBN 0-8223-1045-7
- Poem and Symbol: A Brief History of French Symbolism (1990) ISBN 0-271-00696-X
- A Reading of Dante's Inferno (1981) ISBN 0-226-25888-2
- Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters (1966) ISBN 0-226-71973-1. (Revised,
2005, ISBN 0-226-71977-4)
- Rimbaud and Jim Morrison: The Rebel as Poet (1994) ISBN 0-8223-1442-8
- Rimbaud's Illuminations, A Study in Angelism (1953)
- Rimbaud, the Myth of Childhood (1946)
- Sites: A Third Memoir (1986) ISBN 0-8223-0700-6
- Stendhal (1969)
- Charles Baudelaire Selected Poems from "Flowers of Evil" (1963) ISBN 0-486-28450-6