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Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 7: The Art of Poetry. Introduction by T.S. Eliot

by Paul Valéry

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All of Valery''s major meditations on the theory and practice of poetry are included in this volume. T.S. Eliot writes in his introduction that Valery "invented, and was to impose on his age . . . a new conception of the poet." In Valery''s own words... Read more

All of Valery''s major meditations on the theory and practice of poetry are included in this volume. T.S. Eliot writes in his introduction that Valery "invented, and was to impose on his age . . . a new conception of the poet." In Valery''s own words, the poet is characterized as a "cool scientist, almost an algebraist, in the service of a subtle dreamer." Valery focuses his attention on the deliberate formal work that transforms the dream into the poem, in his own poems, as well as in analyses of La Fontaine, Victor Hugo, Baudelaire, the Symbolists, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, and others.

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File size8 X 5 X 0 in
Print pages347
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Publication date July 21, 1989
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780691018805
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Paul Valéry
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Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry (30 Oct 1871 – 20 July 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction (drama and dialogues), his interests included a...

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