The collected works of Paul Valéry. Volume 1, Poems /

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Author / Creator:Valéry, Paul, 1871-1945, author.
Uniform title:Works. English
Imprint:Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1971.
©1971
Description:1 online resource (510 pages)
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library
Bollingen Series ; 45
Princeton legacy library.
Bollingen series ; 45.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12407292
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Other authors / contributors:Matthews, Jackson, editor.
Paul, David, translator.
Lawler, James R., translator.
ISBN:9781400873098
1400873096
9780691620312
0691620318
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 18, 2014).
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Valéry, Paul. Collected works of Paul Valéry. Volume 1. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, ©1971 xvii, 490 pages Princeton legacy library. 9780691620312