Ernest Delahaye

Ernest Delahaye (1853–1930) was a French writer and essayist. He maintained a long and close friendship with Arthur Rimbaud with whom he first met in April 1865 when they attended school together in Charleville in the Ardennes region of France.[1][2] He and Rimbaud had a shared interest in poetry, and he would help Rimbaud by making fair copies of his drafts for distribution to Rimbaud's literary friends. He was one of the few (seven) recipients of the privately printed A Season in Hell[3] though Rimbaud later asked for it back to give it to someone else.[4][5] According to Rimbaud biographer, Charles Nicholl, Rimbaud's "[last] strictly dateable poem" was contained in a letter to Delahaye of 14 October 1875.[6] Through Rimbaud, Delahaye also met poet Paul Verlaine and became friendly with him. Verlaine wrote a poem - Sonnet Boiteux - which is dedicated to him. Delahaye mixed his civil service career, working at the Education Ministry,[7] with writing biographical material on both Rimbaud and Verlaine, contributing first-hand accounts of the poets' lives and families.[8] Most of Delahaye's correspondence with Rimbaud and Verlaine survives.

Delahaye, anonymous photograph, about 1890.

Works
  • Delahaye, Ernest (1974) [1919], Delahaye, témoin de Rimbaud (in French), Geneva: La Baconnière, ISBN 978-2825200711CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Delahaye, Ernest (2007), Rimbaud; l'artiste et l'être moral (in French), Paris: Cerf, ISBN 978-2204083447CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Delahaye, Ernest; Vecchiet, Jean-Michel (2010), Mon ami Rimbaud (in French), Paris: Editions Naïve, ISBN 978-2350212159CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

References

Notes
  1. Robb 2000, pp. 23-25.
  2. Starkie 1973, pp. 20-21.
  3. Robb 2001, p. 233: Rimbaud gave the others to his mother, Paul Verlaine, Raoul Ponchon, Jean-Louis Forain, Jean Richepin and Ernest Millot.
  4. Robb 2000, p. 235.
  5. Nicholl 1999, p. 72: A widow in Milan
  6. Nicholl 1999, p. 73.
  7. Robb 2000, pp. 430.
  8. White 2008, pp. 25-26.

Sources
  • Lefrère, Jean-Jacques (2001), Arthur Rimbaud (in French), Paris: Fayard, ISBN 978-2-213-60691-0CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Lefrère, Jean-Jacques (2007), Correspondance de Rimbaud (in French), Paris: Fayard, ISBN 978-2-213-63391-6CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Nicholl, Charles (1999), Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa 1880–91, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-58029-6CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Robb, Graham (2000), Rimbaud, New York: W.W. Norton & Co, ISBN 978-0330482820CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Starkie, Enid (1973), Arthur Rimbaud, London: Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-10440-1CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • White, Edmund (2008), Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel, London: Grove, ISBN 978-1-84354-971-0CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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