 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 at Oxford in 1947.She also played a major part in establishing the poetic reputation of Arthur Rimbaud (1938), receiving the first doctorate to be given in the Faculty of Modern Languages for her work "Rimbaud in Abyssinia".