The collected works of Paul Valéry
Subtitle: Poems
By: Paul Valéry ; edited by Jackson Matthews ; translated by David Paul ; selected and translated from the notebooks by James R. Lawler
Contributors: Matthews, Jackson, editor; Paul, David, translator; Lawler, James R., translator
Series: Princeton Legacy Library; Princeton legacy library
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9780691620312
Subjects: Valéry, Paul, 1871-1945; Valéry, Paul, 1871-1945 -- Translations into English; Translations into English; Poetry; FICTION / General
Work titles: Works
Description: 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."
Notes: Originally published in 1971.
Table of contents: title: Album de Vers Anciens Album of Early Verse; title: Editor's Note; title: On Poets and Poetry: Selected and Translated from the Notebooks, by James R. Lawler; title: Notes and Commentaries, by James R. Lawler