Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 1: Poems

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 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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Author: Paul Valéry
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 03/08/2015
Pages: 510
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.03d
ISBN: 9780691620312