David Kelley (1941-1999) was Senior Lecturer in French and Director of Studies in Modern Languages at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was made an Officier des Arts et des Lettres for his services to French culture. As well as co-editing The New French Poetry with Jean Khalfa (Bloodaxe Books, 1996) he translated The River Underground: Selected Poems by Jean Tardieu (Bloodaxe Books, 1991) and had begun working on Wood asleep by Gérard Macé at the time of his death, a translation taken over and completed by Timothy Mathews. David Kelley wrote and edited books on Baudelaire, Rousseau, French literary theory and modern European poetry, and his seminal edition of Baudelaire's Salon de 1846 was published by Oxford University Press in 1975. He translated Théophile Gautier into English and David Gascoyne into French.
