Collected works of Paul Valery, volume 1 : poems / Paul Valéry; James R. Lawler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valéry, Paul, author.

Contributor:

Lawler, James R., editor.

Series:

Bollingen series ; 45.

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library ; 1820

Standardized Title:

Works. English. 1956

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Poetry.

World War, 1914-1918.

European poetry.

European poetry--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (510 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

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," "ed 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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Recollection, by Paul Valéry

ALBUM DE VERS ANCIENS / ALBUM OF EARLY VERSE

LA JEUNE PARQUE / THE YOUNG FATE

CHARMES / CHARMS

PIÈCES DIVERSES DE TOUTE ÉPOQUE / VARIOUS POEMS OF ALL PERIODS

DOUZE POÈMES / TWELVE POEMS

POÈMES PUBLIÉS À PART / UNCOLLECTED POEMS

VERS DE CIRCONSTANCE / OCCASIONAL VERSE

Editor's Note

A Note on the Translations

ON POETS AND POETRY from the NOTE BOOKS

ALBUM DE VERS ANCIENS

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1971], in series Bollingen series ; XLV.

"On poets and poetry / selected and translated from the Notebooks by J.R. Lawler": pages 397-429.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780691647098

0691647097

9780691620312

0691620318

9781400873098

1400873096

OCLC:

903442387