
Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 7
The Art of Poetry. Introduction by T.S. Eliot
Paul Valery(Author)
Jackson Mathews(Editor)
Princeton University Press
Will be published approx. on 21. July 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
347 pages
978-0-691-01880-5 (ISBN)
Description
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, Mallarme, Rimbaud, and others.
Reviews / Votes
"These essays should come into the hands of everyone interested not only in the now almost mythical figure of Valery but in the evolving situation of poetry and poetic theory in our time."--The New YorkerMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
447 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-01880-5 (9780691018805)
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Persons
Paul Valéry, né le 30 octobre 1871 à Sète (Hérault) et mort le 20 juillet 1945 à Paris, est un écrivain, poète et philosophe français.