Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 1: Poems

By Paul Valéry

Book Overview

Poems ranging from "La Jeune Parque" and "Le Cimeti?re marin" to occasional and light verse written as letters to friends, dedications in books, and inscriptions on ladies' fans demonstrate the wide scope of Val?ry's lyric preoccupation. The bilingual edition, with David Paul's English translations facing the French texts, includes the autobiographical "Recollection," quoted below, and excerpts on poetry, selected and translated from Val?ry's notebooks by James Lawler.

Paul Val?ry turned to the discipline of poetry during the First World War, to escape from the "commotion of a world gone mad." "I fashioned myself a poetry," he wrote, "that had no other law than to establish for me a way of living with myself, for a part of my days."

Originally published in 1971.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691620318
• ISBN13: 9780691620312
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 510 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.0"