Valéry, Paul, 1871-1945,

The collected works of Paul ValéryPaul Valéry ; edited by Jackson Matthews ; translated by David Paul ; selected and translated from the notebooks by James R. Lawler. - Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, (c)1971. - 1 online resource (510 pages). - Princeton Legacy Library Bollingen Series ; 45 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Album de Vers Anciens Album of Early Verse; Editor's Note; On Poets and Poetry: Selected and Translated from the Notebooks, by James R. Lawler; Notes and Commentaries, by James R. Lawler.

Poems ranging from ""La Jeune Parque"" and ""Le Cimetière marin"" to occasional and light verse written as letters to friends, dedications in books, and inscriptions on ladies' fans demonstrate the wide scope of Valéry'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 Valéry's notebooks by James Lawler. Paul Valéry turned to the discipline of poetry during the First World War, to escape from the ""commotion of a world g.



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Valéry, Paul, 1871-1945 --Translations into English.


Poetry.
Valéry, Paul, 1871-1945--Translations into English.
Valéry, Paul, 1871-1945.


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PQ2643 / .C655 1971